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Ira Shimasaki taught a high school class at the Jerome Internment Camp in Arkansas. He is pictured with the class in 1943.

The Isuneta family posed in front of the family automobile. Pictured are: (left to right) George Isuneta, Asako Isuneta with Julia Isuneta, Itsuno Isuneta, Shizuge Hada, Kimiye Tanizaki, and Frank Isuneta.

Following a family tradition, Jack Mori (right) and his uncle, George Takasaki are shown making rice cakes in 1988.

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.

James Quan Wong and wife, Jennie Joe Wong, in China. With them is one of their daughters (unidentified here).

Japanese Association float in a 1939 parade. Photo also shows the Fox Theater, at Main Street and Encina, in downtown Visalia, California.

Lindsay Japanese Community Reunion held at Gang Sue's Restaurant in Porterville. Pictured are Japanese Americans who grew up in and around Lindsay.

Professional Japanese baseball players pictured in a Japanese sports magazine in 1954. One of them, Makato Kozury, was considered the "Baba Ruth of Japan" at the time.

Professional Japanese baseball players pictured in a Japanese sports magazine in 1954. Ben Mitsuyoshi, age 26, is pictured here.

Professional Japanese baseball players pictured in a Japanese sports magazine from the 1950s. One player pictured operated a one-man submarine during World War II.