The Paul Junji Toshima collection consists of four photograph albums primarly related to the Korean War and a painting of an incarceration camp.

Paul Junji Toshima (1930-2010) was a Japanese American soldier who served in a special military intelligence unit. Toshima was a lifelong resident of Alhambra, California, and was among the Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) officers and soldiers who made vital contributions during the Korean War by operating behind enemy lines as interrogators, translators, and message interceptors. Toshima was the unofficial documentarian of his unit. Many of the photographs within the collection are hand-annotated, and the albums are signed yearbook style by the men he served with.

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