June 19, 1942 entry Item Info
June 20 (Saturday)
I received a reply letter from Ms. Ogo. I sent a letter to Ms. Nobuko Ochiai, and next to Ms. Ogo, and that is the reply from her. I left a black briefcase with Japanese pajamas and a few other items in it at Foster Hotel. I asked the two to talk to each other to ask Mr. Johnson, a clerk at the hotel to send it to me and also to pay the postage in advance for me if possible.
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I am afraid the reason that I received a letter from Mrs. earlier than from Nobuko is that Nobuko has already been relocated. I wrote the details in the letter to Nobuko and asked her to consult with Mrs. Kiso. It is obvious that Masako Onishi write the letter on behalf of Mrs. Kiso, and Nobuko might have already been relocated.
According to the letter from Ms. Ogo, all of my books were brought to the Buddhist Association, and the trunk with my pajamas in it is kept in the basement of the Foster Hotel with the belongings of the Kiso family and they cannot access it. She seems extremely surprised to hear that I am going back to Japan. She kindly offered her help and told me that I can let her know right away if I need anything, but I could not ask her to purchase items and send them to me in this circumstance. I truly appreciate her kindness, but our fellow Japanese citizens are in the same harsh situation as us, and I even think they are experiencing more painful times than the internees.
The big news was brought to the fellow Japanese citizens in the camp. Radio news reported 15 Japanese airplanes flew over Portland but did not disclose if the bombing was conducted or not, and it was such a sensational piece of news. However, we discovered that it was false news, and someone who was listening to the radio misheard another location as Portland.
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It was such big news for people from Portland, but there are mixed feelings of relief and disappointment for the ones whose family is detained in an assembly center. They are just stunned, and everyone hopes they will conduct such activities after their family is moved to a different location.
- Title:
- June 19, 1942 entry
- Creator:
- Sakaino, Bunro
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1942-06-19
- Description:
- June 19, 1942, diary entry written by Bunro Sakaino while he was incarcerated at Camp Livingston, near Pineville, Louisiana.
- Subjects:
- concentration camps diaries
- Location:
- Camp Livingston, LA
- Source:
- MG 387, George Shihei Shitamae papers, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library
- Translator:
- transcribed and translated by Naoko Tanabe, 2024-25, from Denso densho.org
- Source Identifier:
- mg387_1_7-1942-06-19
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- jpn
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