Title:
Nisaburo Aibara, honored for his service to Japanese Americans of Stanislaus County, California, July 21, 1968.
Creator:
Unknown
Subject:
Japanese Americans -- California -- Turlock
Aibara, Nisaburo
Description:
Nisaburo Aibara received the Medal of the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Japanese government for his service to his
fellow Japanese of Stanislaus County, California. He was born in Yamanashi Ken, Japan on January 1, 1870, and trained at
the School of Veterinary Medicine in Tokyo, where he practiced until immigrating to the United States in 1896. He moved to
Turlock, California in 1913 and organized the Stanislaus County Japanese Association, served as its president and as a liaison
between the Caucasians and the Japanese. Mr. Aibara formed the California Canaloupe Corporation to lease land for Japanese
farmers who were excluded from land ownership and citizenship until after WWII. For almost twenty years he also taught the
Japanese language to the second and third generations of children. Mr. Aibara died February 10, 1973, at the age of 103.
Publisher:
California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Date:
1968 July 21
1968 July 22
Type:
image
Format:
1 photographic print; 10 x 13 cm.
Identifier:
cturs_247
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Stanislaus County (Calif.); Turlock (Calif.)
Rights:
copyrighted
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Turlock Journal
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1968 July 21