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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.

Shigeo Uota and Tim Mitsuuki on the farm they started together.

Shinichi Yamashita and his father came from the Hiroshima area of Japan to the U. S. to look at the country before moving to California in the mid-1920s.

Sawano and Shinishi Yamashita posed for their wedding photo in Hiroshima, Japan. They were married in July 1921.

Daisy Joe Fung (top left) on a float in the 1913 Portola ( San Francisco) parade. She was chosen to ride in the parade while visiting her sister, Jennie.

Daisy Joe Fung (front) and others pose in front of the Joe family's Shanghai Cafe in the 200 block of South K Street in Tulare, California.

Daisy Joe Fung (front) and others in front of the Joe family's Shanghai Cafe in Tulare, California.

Ruby Joe Chan, posed with a parasol, was born in 1909. Ruby Joe married Colonel Won-Loy Chan in 1945.

Rosie Moey Yuen in 1913. She later married Yow Joe, and together they performed on stage as professtional dancers.

Rosie Yuen Joe and husband Yow Joe performed as Joe Chong Haw and Rosie Yuen Moey on the Pantages Circuit as well as with the Ziegfield Follies.