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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.

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Shimasaki family in new 1930 Chevrolet. Pictured are: Tom, Hatsu, Sam, Ira, Fred Shimasaki, Kurazo Ideta, and Atsuko Shimasaki. Photo taken in Strathmore.

The Shimasaki family reunion in the summer of 1987 was in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the home of Rinko Shimasaki. Pictured (left to right ) are, top row: Sam, Walter, Joe, Ira and Fred Shimasaki. Bottom row: Atsuko, Tom and Rinko Shimasaki.

The Shimasaki family reunion in the summer of 1987 was in Harrisonburg, Virginia, at the home of Rinko Shimasaki. Pictured (left to right ) are, top row: Sam, Walter, Joe, Ira and Fred Shimasaki. Bottom row: Atsuko, Tom and Rinko Shimasaki.

Shimasaki family posed with their new Chevrolet automobile in 1931. Kurazo Ideta (father is in the driver's seat. Mother Hatsu and baby Walter are in the back seat. Tom is standing (left) and Sam, Atsuko, Fred, Ira and Rinko are on the running board.

Shimasaki family posed with their new Chevrolet automobile in 1931. Kurazo Ideta (father is in the driver's seat. Mother Hatsu and baby Walter are in the back seat. Tom is standing (left) and Sam, Atsuko, Fred, Ira and Rinko are on the running board.

The Shimasaki brothers and sister Rinko in a 1945 photo. Sam and Fred, both in the army in Belgium, had emergency leave to visit their mother who was dying of cancer. Pictured are (top row, left to right) Sam, Tom, Ira and Fred. Front row: Walter,…

The Shimasaki brothers and sister Rinko in a 1945 photo. Sam and Fred, both in the army in Belgium, had emergency leave to visit their mother who was dying of cancer. Pictured are (top row, left to right) Sam, Tom, Ira and Fred. Front row: Walter,…

Workers are packing tomatoes, cucumbers and summer squash at Shigeo Uota's packing house near Ivanhoe, California.