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Shigeo Uota was presented an award from the Emperor of Japan at a testimonial dinner April 29, 1985. The award, honoring him for the twenty years Uota trained Japanese workers for farm work in Japan, was the "Sixth Class of the Rising Sun" medal.

Aye Ogata (right), Tom Uyeda of Sacramento (foreground) and Bill Ishida in a bomb crater on Bougainville Island late 1944 or 1945. Bougainville is part of the Solomon Island group. The bomb was dropped from a "Betty," a two-engine Japanese bomber.…

Ben Mitsuyoshi (second from left) was entertained by the Mazda Motors CEO in Hiroshima. Ben was playing professional baseball with the Hiroshima Carps at the time.

Ben Mitsuyoshi is pictured with Taka Mitsuyoshi, his mother. Ben, here in uniform, was on furlough from the U. S. Army. Photo was taken in Armona, California, in 1950.

Ben Mitsuyoshi and Howard and Harvey Zenemira on an outing to the Ginza in Tokyo. The Zenemira brothers were from Fresno, California.

Ben Mitsuyoshi (center) in dugout with teammates at a baseball game. Ben played for the Hiroshima Carps professional baseball team.

Ben Mitsuyoshi visited a shrine in Kyoto, Japan. Ben played professional baseball for the Hiroshima Carps for eight years after the end of World War II.

Ben Mitsuyoshi (center) with teammates, Howard and Harvey Zenemira (from Fresno, California), played on the 1953 Hiroshima Carps professional baseball team in Japan's Central League in 1953.

U. S. Army Sgt. Bill Ishida (center) interrogates Japanese POW Army officers (far left and right) in the Phiippines in 1945. The man in the white shirt is a newspaper man. The officer on the far right surrendered his "very sharp" Samurai sword to…

Bill Wake (age 20) in front of the family home. The farm was located on Parlier Ave. east of Buttonwillow near Reedley. He is pulling blocks of wood in his wagon.