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Group of women on outing in foothills of Tulare County. Imano Hatakeda, mother of Jun Hatakeda is second from the right.

Two young boys play as Sumo wrestlers.

Japanese women and girls are dressed in traditional costume for a rodeo parade in Visalia.

Shigeichi and Taka Mitsuyoshi pose for their wedding photo in Wakayama, Japan, 1908. They are the parents of Ben Mitsuyoshi.

Newspaper boys in Jerome, Arkansas, internment camp. Ben Mitsuyoshi is pictured third from left. The boys delivered the Arkansas Gazette and the Chicago Tribune throughout the camp. They were at the camp for two and one-half years.

Boy's Club members at the Jerome, Arkansas, internment camp. Members, including some from Hanford, California, lived in the same camp block. Those pictured include Ben Mitsuyoshi (third from left, middle row) and his brother, Ray Mitsuyoshi (third…

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.

Army Sergeant Ben Mitsuyoshi in Austria in 1951. Ben, with the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, was in Vienna to play baseball against the Air Force team.

Ben Mitsuyoshi with other California members of U. S. Army baseball team in Austria in 1951. The team played baseball against a U. S. Air Force team. Pictured are: (top row) Willie Skien (Long Beach), Ben, Milton Renfree (Auburn), and Dick Reid…

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.