Physical Description: 27 folders
Language of Material: The materials are redominantly in Japanese.
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence between Hiroji Hosaka and his family and friends mainly while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Internment
Camp, the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. Letters from his family,
who were his wife, Takino, and young child, Teruo, depict the pressing situation and reactions of the community when Executive
Order 9066 was enacted, such as, sales negotiation for his Aloha Hotel in Little Tokyo, economic losses, supports offered
from non-Japanese American community, leave from the military zones, and registration and departure schedule. Letters from
his friends update on their daily life and activities in the assembly center and incarceration camps and often include haiku
poems. His letters from the Santa Fe Internment Camp describe internees' mail regulations, meals, interrogation questions,
the "parole" process, and the names of internees which were redacted.