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Notes Series Foreword 1. Arthur A. Hansen’s work in progress, the edited memoir of James M. Omura (1912–1994), should soon give us another Nisei journalist’s life. See his “Peculiar Odyssey: Newsman Jimmie Omura’s Removal from and Regeneration within Nikkei Society, History, and Memory,” inNikkei in the Paciἀc Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century, Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura, eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Introduction 1. David K. Yoo, Growing up Nisei: Race, Generation and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924–1949 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000). Although his argument on the Tajiris’ role is intriguing, Yoo does not make use of archival sources. Bill Hosokawa’s JACL in Quest of Justice (New York: Morrow, 1982) contains some information on the Tajiris and on the founding of the Paciἀc Citizen. 2. On the history of the Tajiri family, see Shinkichi Tajiri, Autobiographical Notations : Autobiography, Words and Images, Paintings, Sculptures, Printed Matter, Photography, Paperworks, Computergraphics (Eindhoven, Netherlands: Kempen, 1993). 3. Most biographical information on Larry Tajiri results from conversations with Guyo Tajiri, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Yoshiko Tajiri. James Tajiri, “We Called Him NiiSan ,” Paciἀc Citizen, February 23, 1965, p. 4; Vincent Tajiri, “Larry,” unpublished manuscript, n.d. (possibly 1982), collection of Shinkichi Tajiri. 4. “‘Optimist’ Gets Loving Cup,” Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1931, A -2. 5.While Guyo claimed to have finished school in 1936, her name is not listed in that year’s University of California yearbook among the graduating class. 6. Jere Takahashi, Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997), 68. 7. See Yuji Ichioka, “The Meaning of Loyalty: The Case of Kazumaro ‘Buddy’ Uno,” in Yuji Ichioka, Gordon H. Chang, and Eiichiro Azuma, Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006), 153–79; Eiichiro Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race. History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 163–86. It must be emphasized that the widespread support that Issei and Nisei, like Americans from other groups, offered Japan against China during the balance of the 1930s did not imply any disloyalty to the United States. See Greg Robinson, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Conἀnement in North America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 38–39. 8. “Attitudes on Sino-Japanese Conflict Given,” Nichi Bei, March 13, 1 938, B-3. 9. Statement of Temporary Committee on Japanese-Americans, n.d. (possibly January 1942), excerpted in “Nisei Protests Discrimination,” New Leader, March 7, 1942, 1, 7. Interestingly, the manifesto concluded that the Nisei, if granted equal treatment , could serve as a powerful psychological warfare tool to the Japanese people against the aggression of their leaders. “Once the people of Japan are convinced that this is not a war of racial extermination as advocated by the Nazis and Japanese militarists, but a fight for democracy and freedom” they would refuse to fight or at least lose interest in fighting to the bitter end. One interesting aspect of Tajiri’s new stand was that, unlike in prewar days, he began capitalizing the word “Nisei.” 10.“Nisei Launch Organization to Fight Coast Evacuation,” Los Angeles Times, February 20, 1942, 10. 11. “ Florin Man Wins Speech Contest,” Fresno Bee, June 10, 1 940. 12.Larry Tajiri, letter to Karl Yoneda (undated, June 1942), copy in letter, Larry Tajiri to Isamu Noguchi, June 1942, Isamu Noguchi papers, Isamu Noguchi Foundation , Queens, New York. 13.Writer Frank Chin has played up Larry’s close ties with government officials during the war and even asserted that Tajiri was a confidential FBI informant, code named “T-1.” Frank Chin Blog, July 2008, chintalks.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_ archive.html, accessed April 30, 2011.A review of Tajiri’s own FBI file, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, reveals that he did offer to assist the bureau in early 1942, but there is no evidence that his offer was taken up. Meanwhile, an FBI report on Tajiri includes information from confidential source “T-1,” so clearly Tajiri was not “T-1”! J. K. Mumford, “Memorandum for Mr. Ladd,” February 2, 1942; FBI Report, File 100–3601IP, November 2, 1942, FBI archives, Washington, D.C. I am indebted to Karen Okagaki for sharing these documents with me. 14. War Relocation Authority, Community Analysis Section: “Report on Special Conference of J.A.C.L., Monday, May 17, 1943, New York City,” Newsletters Relating to the Japanese...