Inventory of the Zenʼichirō Uchida papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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Title: Zenʼichirō Uchida papers
Date (inclusive): 1950-2019
Collection Number: 2020C48
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Japanese and English
Physical Description:
3 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes
(3.67 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Zenʼichirō Uchida was a former Japanese Imperial Army soldier who fought in the Philippines and New Guinea. The Zenʼichirō
Uchida papers includes personal journals, address books, photographs, drafts, and other documents related to the life and
work of Zenʼichirō Uchida.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
Box 5 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials
must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection,
they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2022.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Zenʼichirō Uchida papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Zenʼichirō Uchida was a former Japanese Imperial Army soldier who fought in the Philippines and New Guinea. Originally from
Kushikino, Kagoshima, Japan, he helped arrange refugee visas for several hundred people from Kagoshima to the United States.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection includes motion picture reels, personal journals, address books, photographs, drafts, and other documents related
to the life and work of Zenʼichirō Uchida.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Refugees
Japan
Kagoshima-ken (Japan)
Emigration and immigration
Diaries
Photographs
box 1, folder 1
Passports
1966, 1972, 1977
box 1, folder 3
Personal journals
1974-1979
box 1, folder 4
Personal journals
1980-1984
box 1, folder 5
Personal journals
1986-1989
box 2, folder 1
Personal journals
1990-1993
box 2, folder 2
Personal journals
1994-1999
box 2, folder 3
Personal journals
2000-2003
box 2, folder 4
Personal journals
2004-2006
box 2, folder 5
Personal biography Amerika wo taku (アメリカを拓く) vol. 1 and 2
1991
box 3, folder 2
Refugee Relief Act that Stopped Anti-American Campaign
1950s
box 3, folder 3
Visit records of immigrant families Imin angya no tabi (移民行脚の旅)
box 3, folder 6
Unpublished document "Gambatte Kimashita: Japanese Flower Growers of the Salinas Valley"
circa 2008
box 4
Photo album "Kagoshima-ken kaigai ijū kinen shashinchō" (Kagoshima prefecture immigration commemorative photo album)
1967
box 5
Photo album
1950s
Access
Box 5 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box MC29
CD-ROM titled "Dreams Blossom"
2019
Scope and Contents
1 optical disk
Access
Digital materials are not available until processed. If interested in accessing these materials, please contact us for more
information.
Japanese Refugee Farm Camps Motion Picture Film
1957-1958, undated
Access
Original audiovisual materials are not available until they have been reformatted. If interested in accessing these materials,
please contact us for more information.
Scope and Contents
3 8mm motion picture reels created by Zen'ichirō Uchida to serve as a visual correspondence between about 350 Japanese farm
workers who came to the United States on refugee visas in 1955-1956 and their family members in Japan. The Japanese farm workers
had three-year contracts to work in Japanese American-operated farm camps in various locations in California while their families
waited to join them after completing their contracts.
box 6, reel 1
Kawasaki farm camp in Fresno, Nishida farm camp, Kitayama nursery in Watsonville, and families' departure from Japan (Yokohama
or Kobe)
1958
box 6, reel 2
Families joining the Japanese farm workers in 1957-1958, downtown Los Angeles and farmland in Watsonville
1957-1958
box 6, reel 3
Seeding bedding plants, chicken farm, farm camp in Fresno, sightseeing for the families before their departure for the United
States
undated
