Inventory of the Harry K. Fukuhara papers
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Title: Harry K. Fukuhara papers
Date (inclusive): approximately 1920-1980
Collection Number: 2020C16
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Japanese
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes,1 cardfile box
(2.33 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Harry K. Fukuhara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1920. Following WWII, he worked as part of the US Army's occupation and
reconstruction of Japan, helping to establish post-war US-Japanese relations. The collection contains photos, documents, and
interviews related to Harry K. Fukuhara's life and career. From high school in Hiroshima, as a military intelligence interpreter,
and as a military intelligence officer during the occupation period of Japan.
Creator:
Fukuhara, Harry K., 1920-2015
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2021.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Harry K. Fukuhara papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Harry K. Fukuhara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1920. He attended school in Japan from 1933-1938 after his mother relocated
the family following his father's death. He was incarcerated at the Gila River Relocation Center (a US government-run concentration
camp for Japanese Americans during WWII) until 1942, when he enlisted in the Army and served with the 33rd Infantry Division.
Towards the end of the war, he was part of the military force preparing to invade Kyusha, Japan. After Emperor Hirohito announced
Japan's surrender, Fukuhara returned to Japan to look for his mother and three brothers. He eventually found them all suffering
from radiation poisoning as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima; all survived except for one brother. Following WWII, he
worked as part of the US Army's occupation and reconstruction of Japan, helping to establish post-war US-Japanese relations.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Harry K. Fukuhara papers contains photos, documents, and interviews related to Fukuhara's life and career. From high school
in Hiroshima, as a military intelligence interpreter, and as a military intelligence officer during the occupation period
of Japan.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Interviews
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
Photographs
Translating and interpreting
United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service
box 1, folder 1
Correspondence with Ichiki Chiaki; Magazine clippings of Harry Fukuhara's interviews
1995-1997
box 1, folder 2
Harry Fukuhara's and family photographs; Debriefing to Dr. Finnegan, US Inscom Command Hisstorian; Document on MIS Soldiers
1920s-1991
box 1, folder 3
"Highways of Honor" Military Intelligence Service 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion
1995 June 7
Scope and Contents
Includes 1 photographic print
box 1, folder 4
Document on military occupation of Japan and my story-- 50 years later
2002 August 26
box 1, folder 5
TV program documents on "Yankee Samurai" and "Nisei Soldiers"
1980 December 19
box 1, folder 6
Photographs of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
1991 January 25
Scope and Contents
Contains photographic prints
box 1, folder 7
Documents including report on the police in Japan; MIS 25th Reunion
1996 November 11-13
box 1, folder 8
Documents including General Field Headquarters Imperial Japanese Forces in the Philippines
1945 August 31
box 1, folder 9
Documents including Japanese American WWII Veterans Memorial Project and his Farewell Party in Japan
1990 July
box 1, folder 10
Documents including an overview of Japanese Americans
undated
box 1, folder 11
Documents and photographs on US Army Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame Ceremony
1993 July 9
Scope and Contents
Includes 12 photographic prints
box 2, folder 1
Autobiography and photographs, including Harry Fukuhara's father with Charlie Chaplin
1920s-1990s
Scope and Contents
Includes 5 photographic prints
box 2, folder 2
Newspaper clippings on Nisei veterans
1995
box 2, folder 3
Documents and photographs including Day of Rememberance by Army Counter Intelligence Corps Veterans
1993 November 10
Scope and Contents
Includes 31 photographic prints
box 2, folder 4
Reports of Go For Broke (1993); Rocky Mountain MIS Veterans Club; 50th Anniversary Defense Language Institute (1991)
1991-1993
box 2, folder 5
Reports including the Nisei Intelligence War against Japan, MIS Historical Committee
1990s
box 2, folder 6
Reports including MIS in Japan (Nikkei Heritage)
1990-2003
box 2, folder 7
Reports including Military Intelligence Service Capital Reunion
1993 October 21-23
box 3, folder 1
Reports including MIS Personal WWII Pacific Theater
1993 July 8-10
box 3, folder 2
Reports including Fourth Army Intelligence School, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
1999
box 3, folder 3
Reports including From America's Concentration Camps to the US Army, Kojiro Francis Kawaguchi
2007 March 12
box 3, folder 4
Reports including Florin Japanese American Citizens League Oral History Project
1993 June 3
box 3, folder 5
Reports including Military Intelligence a picture history
1984 December 27
box 3, folder 6
Reports on Japanese American Incarceration Camps
2000s
box 4, folder 1
Reports including the 13th National Nisei Veterans Reuion
1982
box 4, folder 2
Album, Class of 1933, Sanyō Dai-1 Shōgyō High School, Hiroshima
1933
box 5
VHS tape: Richard Motoso Sakakida
undated
box 5
VHS tape: MIS 50th Reunion Panel Discussion
1991 October 30
box 5
VHS tape: Harry Fukuhara Interviews in Japan
undated
box 5
VHS tape: Military Intelligence Service 50th Grand Reunions
1993
box 5
VHS tape: 報道特集日系軍人の太平洋戦争 (Special Report: Nikkei Military Officers of the Pacific War)
undated
box 5
VHS tape: 日本と戦った日系人ーGHQ 通訳・苦悩の歳月 (Nikkei who fought against Japan: SCAP Interpreters and their tormented days)
undated
box 5
VHS tape: アメリカ情報部隊の作られた謎・下山事件 (A Mystery Created by the American Intelligence: Shimoyama Incident)
undated
box 5
VHS tape: 空白の占領期：日系二世たちが語る占領下の富山 (A Blank Space of the Occupation Period: Occupied Toyama Recounted by Nisei)
2007 March 1
