King Sho (Taiko number 6) was the last king of Okinawa. King Sho went to Tokyo in the year Meiji 12 (1878). He reluctantly gave up the Shuri castle and residence to the Emperor Meifi and the Japanese government. Ryukyu (Okinawa) had been an...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American [lcsh]; World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence; Aiso, John [aacr2]
Pvt. John Aiso was recruited as the chief instructor of the 4th Army Intelligence school that opened in a converted hangar at Crissy Field in the Presido of San Francisco. They added Akira oshida, Shig Kihara, Tetsuo Imagawa, among others to the...
Walerga Assembly Center; Matsui, Doris; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Anniversaries, etc.;
"Day of Remembrance" ceremonies where held at the site of the Walerga Assembly Center in Sacramento. Among the guests was Doris Matsui, who announced she was born in 1944 in an internment camp in Arizonia.