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Letter from children of Kihichi Sakamoto to Project Director [Raymond R. Best], February 14, 1944
No full textLetter from three of his children, Tatsuo, Manabu, and Osamu Sakamoto, requests the release of their father, Kihichi Sakamoto, from the Army Stockade, for the sake of their mother's "health and mind" stating that she has been ill since their stay in Heart Mountain the previous year and has suffered a relapse upon her husband's imprisonment in the stockade; the letter states that, according to her doctor, a lack of kindness and peace of mind regarding this request for release could prove lethal to her.The Willard Schmidt collection, documents some of the administrative duties of Willard Schmidt, the Chief of Internal Security for the War Relocation Authority and the Tule Lake incarceration/segregation camp. This collection contains administrative records and photos documenting the Tule Lake camp, the largest incarceration camp with a peak population of 18,789 and with the most turbulent history. In 1943, the camp was turned into a segregation center to house "disloyal" Japanese Americans relocated from other camps based on their answers to a confusing loyalty questionnaire. The camp endured martial law from November 1943- Jan 1944 after escalating protests and unrest. The hostile environment of the camp lead to many incarcerees renouncing their American citizenship upon the end of incarceration, a process which took 14 years to reverse if they did not wish to be deported to Japan
Mike Masaoka and Misoji Sakamoto
No full textPhoto of Mike Masaoka (right) shown with Misoji Sakamoto, a Japanese politician. On desk are photos of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and Prime Minister Takeo Miki. Photo was attached to correspondence located in Ms box 7, folder 2
James Sakamoto letter to J.J. McGovern asking him to release Lillian M. Horiuchi from Camp Harmony so that she may travel to Wyoming to marry her fiance, Jack Ishii, June 8, 1942
No full textSakamoto writes to J.J. McGovern, the manager of the Camp Harmony assembly center, to ask him to consider releasing Lillian M. Horiuchi from the camp so that she can rejoin her fiance, Jack Ishii, in Wyoming where he now resides. Sakamoto writes "Correspondence has been shown to me from Mr. Ishii stating that he desires Miss Horuchi to join him in Worland to become married to him. Knowing the two as I do, I feel that such a marriage would be a happy moment to both and will prove a most fortunate solution to the unenviable circumstance into which they were plunged by this war." Sakamoto speaks of Ishii's fine character and recommends Horiuchi's release.After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States government began enacting a series of measures against those with Japanese ancestry. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing military commanders to designate "military areas" at their discretion, "from which any or all persons may be excluded." On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt signed Public Proclamation No. 1 establishing the Pacific coast and 100 miles inland as Military Area No. 1 and requiring that anyone with "enemy" ancestry evacuate. Through the spring of 1942, Japanese families began moving into temporary assembly centers, such as Camp Harmony in Puyallup, Washington, where they remained through the summer before moving to permanent internment camps
Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
No full textThis thesis is a Nietzschean analysis of Meiji Restoration hero Sakamoto Ryoma (1835 - 1867). It discusses the life and times of Sakamoto and basic theories of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). It argues that despite vastly different historical, cultural, and ideological backgrounds, Sakamoto and Nietzsche were modern men with similar ideas, and that Sakamoto lived those ideas. The author demonstrates that Sakamoto perceived Confucianism-based social and political systems under Tokugawa feudalism as threatening to Japan’s sovereignty in an age of Western imperialism, and that through a Nietzschean “will to power” and resolve to “live dangerously” he helped overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. The paper compares Sakamoto’s rejection of Confucian-samurai values with Nietzsche’s rejection of Christian values, and Nietzsche’s announcement of the death of God with Sakamoto’s heralding of the death of Tokugawa feudalism. Pointing out the importance that Sakamoto and Nietzsche placed on truth, individualism, self-reliance, and self-determination, the paper argues that Sakamoto, embodying Nietzsche’s “higher man,” created new values and embraced ideas resembling Nietzsche’s doctrine of free death to overcome chaos and create meaning through revolution
Risk factors for requirement of filtration surgery after vitrectomy in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy [Corrigendum]
No full textSakamoto M, Hashimoto R, Yoshida I, Maeno T. Clin Ophthalmol. 2018;12:733–738. Page 733, Abstract, Results section, line 2, the text “(P=0.08)” should read “(P=0.008)”. Read the original article 
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No full textThe ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp 220 has been observed at 0: 00 5 resolution in CO(2--1) and 1 mm continuum using the newly expanded Owens Valley Millimeter Array. The CO and continuum peaks at the double nuclei and the surrounding molecular gas disk are clearly resolved. We find steep velocity gradients across each nucleus (\DeltaV 500 km s \Gamma1 within r = 0: 00 3) whose directions are not aligned with each other and with that of the outer gas disk. We conclude that the double nuclei have their own gas disks (r 100 pc). They are counterrotating with respect to each other and embedded in the outer gas disk (r 1 kpc) rotating around the dynamical center of the system. The masses of each nucleus are M dyn ? 2 \Theta 10 9 M fi based on the CO kinematics. Although there is no evidence of an old stellar population in the optical or near infrared spectroscopy of the nuclei (probably due to the much brighter young population), it seems likely that these nuclei w..
Yoshie Fujiwara
No full textPhoto of Yoshie Fujiwara, renowned Japanese Opera singer and founder of the Yoshi Fujiwara Opera Company. His wife was also an opera singer. They came to Salt Lake City more than once for performances, arranged by Henry Kasai. This photograph depicts Yoshie Fujiwara as Mario Cavaradossi from the opera Tosca, staged in Tokyo, Japan, in 1935, and photographed by Manshichi Sakamoto
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During the Second World War, the Japanese government stirred the people to support its war effort with the image of ?One hundred million hearts beating as one human bullet to defeat the enemy.? Kerri Sakamoto, winner of the Commonwealth Writers? Prize and the Japan-Canada Literary Award for her first novel The Electrical Field, draws on this wartime propaganda in her second novel as she casts light on a fascinating figure from wartime Japan: the kamikaze pilot.
These devout young men offered their lives to fly planes into enemy artillery; both human sacrifice and deadly weapon. A cherry blossom painted on the sides of the bomber symbolized the beauty and?
During the Second World War, the Japanese government stirred the people to support its war effort with the image of ?One hundred million hearts beating as one human bullet to defeat the enemy.? Kerri Sakamoto, winner of the Commonwealth Writers? Prize and the Japan-Canada Literary Award for her first novel The Electrical Field, draws on this wartime propaganda in her second novel as she casts light on a fascinating figure from wartime Japan: the kamikaze pilot.
These devout young men offered their lives to fly planes into enemy artillery; both human sacrifice and deadly weapon. A cherry blossom painted on the sides of the bomber symbolized the beauty and ephemerality of nature. Coming back alive from a sacred mission was shameful failure. To succeed meant transformation into an eternal flower ? reincarnation ? as the plane exploded like a fiery blossom in the sky.
In One Hundred Million Hearts, Miyo is a young Canadian woman who has been cared for all her life by her uncommunicative but devoted Japanese-Canadian father. Her mother died soon after her birth, and a disfigurement prevented the left side of her body from developing the same way as the right, causing her to be reliant on her father?s help. One day, commuting to work by subway when he can no longer drive her around, she is accidentally caught in the train doors, and rescued by a man who quickly professes his love for her.
The joy of this nurturing and joyful relationship removes her from the almost claustrophobic shelter of home, but as she grows distant from her father, his strength begins to fade; until one day she receives the terrible news of his death. It is only then that she discovers his secret past. The woman he always called his girlfriend was in fact his wife; they had a daughter in Japan, but gave her up for adoption. Now the daughter, Hana, is an artist in Tokyo. Amazed that she has a half-sister, Miyo travels there to meet her. Hana is bitter about being abandoned by her father, and has thrown herself into her work with almost destructive intensity.
Through Hana, Miyo learns more of their father?s hidden past. Though born in Canada, he was sent to university in Japan; in 1943, Japan was losing the war and the army began conscripting even students. He volunteered as a kamikaze pilot; yet he survived. Hana?s obsession with their father?s wartime history takes the shape of huge paintings of flowers adorned with the faces of kamikaze pilots and the red threads that one thousand schoolgirls sewed onto the white sash of every pilot that made this suicidal mission.
?If only he had not hoarded his secrets,? thinks Miyo as she struggles to understand modern Japan and her father?s past. Why did he not fulfill his ultimate sacrifice, but live to care for her? The reader is drawn into the daily struggles of each of the characters and their rich interior lives through a lyrical portrait of Japanese life that has been compared to David Guterson?s Snow Falling on Cedars and Arthur Golden?s Memoirs of a Geisha. The Montreal Gazette said Kerri Sakamoto has created in Miyo ?a marvelously complex, compelling character who is transformed?to a woman who runs and dances and loves, not in innocence, but in full, terrifying knowledge.?
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Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto to a Japanese Canadian family. Her first novel, The Electrical Field, was a finalist for a slew of awards?the Governor General?s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award?and won the Commonwealth Writers? Prize for Best First Book and the Canada?Japan Literary Award. The Toronto Star said ?Kerri Sakamoto represents a major new force in the landscape of Canadian fiction.?
Kerri?s second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts, also earned widespread critical acclaim. After taking a sabbatical from writing to raise?
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Letter from S. Sakamoto to [The Dominguez Estate Company], December 21, 1941
No full textInquiring of the company still possess his birth certificate, and if so if they would return it. See item csudh_rsp_0290 for reply
A Converse to a Theorem of Oka and Sakamoto for Complex Line Arrangements
No full textLet C1 and C2 be algebraic plane curves in ℂ 2 such that the curves intersect in d1 · d2 points where d1, d2 are the degrees of the curves respectively. Oka and Sakamoto proved that π1( ℂ 2 \ C1 U C2)) ≅ π1 ( ℂ 2 \ C1) × π1 ( ℂ 2 \ C2) [1]. In this paper we prove the converse of Oka and Sakamoto’s result for line arrangements. Let A1 and A2 be non-empty arrangements of lines in ℂ 2 such that π1 (M(A1 U A2)) ≅ π1 (M(A1)) × π1 (M(A2)) Then, the intersection of A1 and A2 consists of /A1/ · /A2/ points of multiplicity two
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