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Jack, Megan and Betty Mori in Oban dress. The occasion was the Visalia City Leadership dinner at the Visalia Convention Center in June 1963. Oban dancing is part of traditional Japanese entertainment.

Mrs. Masuda holds a bunch of grapes she is packing at the J. D. Martin ranch. The ranch was located on Road 172, north of Ivanhoe, California.

November 1, 1992, parade honoring the 85th anniversary of the Buddhist Church in Visalia.Those pictured along Tipton Street include: unidentified boy, Maile Mikasa, Katie Mikasa, Kathy Ishimoto and Jocilyn Fukushima.

Hiroshi Yuta and Bishop Sceien Yamaoka, Bishop of Buddhist Churches of America, march in the parade honoring the 85th anniversary of the Visalia Buddhist Church, November 1, 1992. Bishop Yamaoka was born in Fresno, California. The parade route was…

The 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team sign. Hiroshi Matoba was stationed here. The 442nd was composed of Japanese American and was the most decorated army unit in World War II. Hiroshi was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's…

Sawano Yamashita posed for photo in Hiroshima before her wedding to Shinichi Yamashita.

Suzuko Yamashita, age 3, in 1925.

A horse pulls a cultivator on the Yamashita ranch. The ranch grew tree and field crops.

Sawano Shinichi is seen (2nd row, 2nd from right) in her 7th grade school photo. The school was in Hiroshima, Japan.

Members of the Visalia Buddhist Church club in 1940. Suzuko Yamashita is pictured on the far right.