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This list isn’t complete because it only has dates from 1943 to 1944.  Families that were taken to Tule Lake earlier in 1942 I found to be not listed, so they must have moved them to some other location.

Tule Lake Unit – WDC List 1944 (U.S. National Park Service)
The documents in this section gives a rare look at the Japanese American population incarcerated in the Tule Lake Segregation Center from September 1943 through July 15, 1944. This list was compiled by the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command (WDC) following the forced removal to Tule Lake, known as segregation, of persons from the other nine WRA camps who refused to cooperate with the flawed loyalty questionnaire.

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Cultural News: Lecture: True story of the first Japanese colony, Jan 19

January 19, 2010 (Tuesday) 6:30 PM

Brian Tadashi Maeda, film director, will be speaking about his current film project: “Samurai of Gold Hill”

It is the fascinating sage of the “Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony,” first Japanese colony to establish itself in California.

The last samurai group of Aizu-Wakamatsu during the Bakumatsu (the End of Tokugawa Shogunate) period, escaped from Japan with a lead of a German to settling in Gold Hill, California.

The year was 1869, the second year of the Meiji when they finally arrived at California. [more information]

More information about Wakamatsu Colony at Rafu Shimpo: A Legend Reborn By Ryoko Ohnishi

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I will be moving the forum and database to http://forum.nikkeiancestry.com over the next few day’s.

So, it may be a little bumpy, hopefully not! Also, this Wordpress blog http://news.nikkeiancestry.com/wordpress/ will be moving to http://nikkeiancestry.com

Actually, I’ve already moved the forum with it’s database, so you can go their now.

Everything should be working. The main domain name, nikkeiancestry.com, will have a Wordpress blog [This one}, and there will also be a link to the forum from the blog. This will help bring more interested genealogist or interested people to participate in the forum.

If anyone speaks and writes Japanese and wouldn't mind helping some genealogists in translating some documents in the forum [peer to peer support group], that would greatly help, and be appreciated.

So, the two domain names are:

http://nikkeiancestry.com [Nikkei Ancestry Wordpress Blog] This blog!

http://forum.nikkeiancestry.com [Nikkei Ancestry Forum]

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This exhibit has already taken place, but the artist is looking for exhibitors in the US.  It’s a scroll painted over a period of about 14 years by a Japanese artist Rakushi Hojo, and depicts the Japanese American history of Hawaii and the mainland.

Interested in Japanese-American heritage? See the amazing scrolls in Yokohama on June 5.
日系移民歴史にご興味? 横浜文化体育会館にて６月５日(金)一日のみの展示会が開催されます。お一人の夢はカタチにする１４年間かかった作品です。是非、お立ち寄りください

The World’s Longest Picture Scroll depicting Japanese American History on Exhibit in Yokohama, Japan – Free-Press-Release.com

United States of America (Press Release) May 5, 2009 — Japanese artist seeks exhibitors in the U.S. to exhibit the world’s longest picture scroll , which will be on exhibit for the first time to the public on June 5, 2009, at Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan as a part of 150th Anniversary of the Port of Yokohama.

The scroll, painted on specialized local “Washi (Japanese)” papers, is 34-volume, 620-meter long with 1069 frames containing 120,000 people, with scenes spanning from the 13th Century to present.

For contact information please see link.

[read more about the world's longest scroll ]

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Meanwhile, please stop by the 日系 Nikkei Ancestry: Japanese Genealogy Research Forum.

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