11775315.mrk

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=100  1\$aRikimaru, Mataji,$d1901-1986.
=245  10$aLetter :$bMissoula, Montana, to Walter,$f1942 March 28.
=300  \\$a1$fitem (1 p.) ;$c26 cm
=336  \\$aunspecified$2rdacontent
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=506  0\$aThis material is open for research.
=545  \\$aThe United States declared war on Japan in 1941 following an attack by Japan on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Under authority granted by Executive Order 9066, issued in February 1942, the federal government incarcerated over 120,000 people of Japanese descent in American concentration camps. Poston Relocation Center in Arizona was the largest of the ten American concentration camps operated by the United States War Relocation Authority during World War II, 1942-1945.
=545  \\$aMataji "Ricky" Rikimaru (1901-1986) was born in Japan and lived in Los Angeles, California. During the 1930s, he and his brother, Isamu Rikimaru (1898-1977), established a wholesale produce market, Rikimaru Brothers and Company in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Rikimuru brothers were arrested by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 8, 1941, and incarcerated at Fort Missoula, Montana.
=520  \\$aTyped letter, signed that describes censoring of a previous letter sent by "Walter" to Rikimaru on March 5, 1942.
=561  \\$aPurchased from Robert McDearmon on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2009.
=546  \\$aIn English.
=524  \\$aMataji Rikimaru, Letter to Walter. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
=600  10$aRikimaru, Mataji,$d1901-1986.
=650  \0$aConcentration camps$zMontana$zMissoula.
=650  \0$aCensorship$zUnited States.
=650  \0$aJapanese Americans$xEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945$vSources.
=650  \0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConcentration camps$zMontana$zMissoula.
=650  \0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJapanese Americans.
=650  \0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Japanese American.
=651  \0$aFort Missoula (Mont.)
=852  \\$aBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
=954  \\$aThis record was edited in 2021 as part of ongoing revision of outdated or harmful language in cataloging. Previous versions of this catalog record may be available. For more information, contact the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.$d2021-07-01$7repdesc