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Japanese American Research Project (Yuji Ichioka) collection of material about Japanese in the United States
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Japanese American Research Project (Yuji Ichioka) collection of material about Japanese in the United States
Creator:
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2010.00
Physical Description:
401 Linear Feet
(760 boxes, 21 cartons, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1893-1973
Abstract: Collection consists of materials collected by the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) related to the history of Japanese
and Japanese Americans in the United States. Contains more than 100 groups of personal papers related to individuals and/or
families, and these groups contain correspondence, diaries, photographs, and a variety of printed materials. Also contains
several thousand returned questionnaires and records related to surveys of the Issei, Nisei, and Sansei conducted during the
1960s. Also includes over 400 tape recordings and oral histories, original art work done by internees during WWII, yearbooks,
directories, newspapers, pamphlets, and records related to Japanese consulates on the West Coast. The collection also contains
administrative records of the Japanese American Research Project.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in Japanese and English.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed audiovisual materials. For information
about the access status of the material that you are looking for, refer to the Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed audiovisual materials must be made in advance using the
request button located on this page.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Japanese American Research Project (Yuji Ichioka) collection of material about Japanese in the United
States (Collection 2010). ULCA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Japanese American Research Project, 1973.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff and edited by Josh Fiala, 1998. Additional description by Gaku Uchino
and Rebecca Bucher, 2017.
Description updates by Rishi Guné and Kuhelika Ghosh as part of a 2019 CFPRT Redescription Project. Euphemistic terms such
as "internment" were updated to reflect preferred terminology outlined in the Power of Words Handbook from the Japanese American
Citizen's League.
Additional finding aid revisions by Jasmine Jones, 2019.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233210
The Japanese American Research Project (originally named the Issei History Project) was initiated by Wakamatsu Shigeo, President
of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in 1960. The three major objectives of the project were:
- to conduct a sociological survey based on a national sampling of the Issei and Nisei populations;
- to publish a definitive history of the Japanese Americans;
- and to collect documents, including oral history and memorabilia. UCLA agreed to co-sponsor the project along with the JACL.
T. Scott Miyakawa became the first director of the project, and Robert A. Wilson was appointed to administer the fund. Later
funds were contributed to the project to include the Sansei generation in the survey.
Collection consists of materials collected by the Japanese American Research Project (JARP) related to the history of Japanese
and Japanese Americans in the United States. Contains more than 100 groups of personal papers related to individuals and/or
families, and these groups contain correspondence, diaries, photographs, and a variety of printed materials. Also contains
several thousand returned questionnaires and records related to surveys of the Issei, Nisei, and Sansei conducted during the
1960s. Also includes over 400 tape recordings and oral histories, original art work done by incarcerees during WWII, yearbooks,
directories, newspapers, pamphlets, and records related to Japanese consulates on the West Coast. The collection also contains
administrative records of the Japanese American Research Project.
Arranged in the following series:
- Personal papers
- Materials relating to the Japanese consulates in the United States
- Organizational materials
- Materials relating to Japanese language schools
- Materials relating to incarceration camps and World War II
- Published materials (not included in previous categories)
- Photographs and photo albums
- Oral history tapes
- Issei, Nisei, and Sansei survey returns and related office files
- Miscellaneous items
- Frank F. Chuman papers (see separate finding aid)
- Sumitomo Bank of California
- Nisei and Sansei survey, original returns
- University of Hawaii at Manoa - transcripts of oral history interviews
- W. Eugene Dimon papers (see separate finding aid)
- Arai Family papers (Collection 1254)
- Shigeichi Kawano papers (Collection 1251)
- Siberius Y. Saito drawings
Collection of papers from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs dealing with Japanese emigration into the United States
and other countries (microform).
Available at UCLA Library, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Japanese oral histories, 1964-1969 (ACCN 0806). Available at Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Scrapbooks.
Paintings (visual works).
Photograph albums.
Japanese Americans -- United States -- History
Japanese American families -- Archives.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Schools, Japanese -- United States.
Periodicals.
Diaries.
Audiotapes.
Family papers.
Drawings.
Photographs.
Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)--Archives.
United States. War Relocation Authority.
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