New Advisory Board Member....

George H. Takei

We welcome actor and author, George Hosato Takei, who was born in Los Angeles, California to Japanese American parents.   In 1942, the Takei family was forced to live in the horse stables of Santa Anita Park (Santa Anita Assembly Center) before being sent to the Rohwer Arkansas concentration camp.  Later, the Takei family was transferred to the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California.

Joint Meeting

Meeting with the Poston Memorial Monument Committee

Long-time volunteers

Former Poston prisoners

Reminiscing......

Another block book done

Poston block 17 book DONE!
Index of family names: 

Arita, Awaya, Fujimoto, Fujita, Fukuda,
Fukushima, Hashimoto, Hayase, Hiraki, Horita, Ikeda, Itow, Iwamuro, Kanazawa, Kawahara, Kobayashi, Maruyama, Masumoto ,Morimoto, Mukai, Murata, Nakamura, Nakawatase, Nishida, Nishijima, Nishio, Nishioka, Nishita, Noda, Okita, Osumi, Ota, Ouchida, Sakai, Sakaye, Sawabe, Shigemi, Shingai, Sugimoto, Suyemasa, Tabuchi, Takahashi, Takata, Tanabe, Tanaka, Taniguchi, Toyofuku, Umeda, Uyehata, Yamaguchi, Yamamoto,Yoshida, Yoshioka.....

 

 

Poston block 326 book

WANTED: PRE-1950s photos

.......  Just completed......

Poston block 326 book

 Family name INDEX

Akamichi, Anzai, Atari, Doi, Fujii, Fujinaka, Fujita, Furubayashi, Goishi, Hanada,Hashimoto, Hayano, Hibama, Hirashima, Honda, Hongo, Ishibashi, Ishikawa, Iwahashi, Iwasa, Izushita, Kagawa, Kakishita, Kamada, Kamimura, Kanezaki, Katahira, Katano, Kimura, Kino, Kinoshita, Kinuya, Kita, Kiyomura, Koyama, Kumamoto, Kumatori, Kurihara, Kurooka, Kurujami, Matsukami, Matsumoto, Misono, Miyagishima, Morishita, Morofuji, Munekata, Murata, Muto, Nagano, Nagasawa, Nagaya, Naka,Nakamura, Nakashima, Namba, Oda, Ogata, Okamoto, Oki, Sakai, Sakayo, Sasaki, Sasano, Setoguchi, Shibata, Shigemi, Shimizu, Shiota, Shiraishi, Shirasawa, Sumida, Suzuki, Taguchi, Takahashi, Takanishi, Takao, Takatoh, Takayoshi, Tokuda, Tsurudome, Ueda, Uyeda, Uyeno, Wake, Watanabe, Yamaguchi, Yamane, Yokoyama.....

..... Waiting for your scanned photos (jpg format) of 

people who lived at Poston block 326......

email: diannerd79(at)yahoo(dot)com 

Information on how to order copies of the Poston block books

 to be announced at a later date. 

Book sales update

Effective immediately: Received notice from the publisher (Blurb.com) that the price of the books has changed.
If you are interested in pre-ordering a book, 
contact: diannerd79(at)yahoo(dot)com

And another one done!

Poston block 306 book DONE!!!
Index of families:
Akahoshi, Akita, Amino, Ashida, Chikasawa, Enoki, Ezaki,Fujinami, Furuta, Hamamoto, Harada, Hayakawa, Ihara,Ikemoto, Ikuta, Ishii, Ishijima, Iwaihara, Izumi, Kaku, Kaneichi, Kawashige, Kodama, Kuroda, Kurokawa, Kusayanagi, Kuwada, Maruyama, Matsumoto, Matsuoka, Matsushita, Mitsuoka, Miyashita, Mizuno, Nagai, Nagano, Nagata, Nakamura, Nakano, Narimatsu, Natsume, Nishimoto, Nishimura, Nishioka, Niwa, Oda, Ogata, Okuyama, Onchi, Osaki, Ozawa, Sakai, Sakaji, Sakamoto, Shimada, Shinpo, Shintani, Shiraishi, Sujishi, Takahashi, Takemoto, Taku, Tanaka, Tanase, Tanigawa, Taniguchi, Tanisaki, Tanouye, Terakawa, Terasaki, Tokudomi, Tosono, Toyama, Tsuneta, Uyeda, Uyeki, Wadamoto, Wakita, Watanabe, Yamada, Yamagata, Yamamoto, Yanagita, Yemoto, Yokota, Yoneda, Yonezawa.......

Send in your photo scans (jpg format)!!! Don't miss out!
diannerd79(at)yahoo(dot)com

What is a "kokyu"?

We are pleased to announce......

A  very *special friend* of Poston has generously donated

 a Poston handcrafted set of miniature "kokyu".

The kokyu is a traditional Japanese bowed string instrument.

 It is vertically set up on the knees to play.

It has 3 strings tuned in D-G-C  as a standard setting

                              

It does not have a fret on the fingerboard.

 

We continue to need to collect artifact donations

 for our future museum.

Contact: diannerd79(at)yahoo(dot) com

Poston block 318

Poston block 318 book DONE!

Index of family names:
 Abe, Aoki, Aoyagi, Fukuhara, Fukumoto, Hamasaki, Hanemoto, Hayashi, Hirase, Ibara, Ieiri, Ikuta, Imada, Inouye, Ishibashi, Ishida, Ishizue, Iwamoto, Iwasaki, Kamitoku, Kanno, Kano, Katayama, Kawaguchi, Kawahara, Kawahira, Kawamoto, Kitahata, Kitano, Kitaro, Kishizawa, Kodama, Koga, Kubo, Kumaki, Kusatake, Kuwabara, Masukawa, Matoi, Mizokami, Mizote, Mukai, Nakagawa, Nakamura, Nakao, Nakayama, Nishida, Nishikawa, Nishinaka, Nishiyama, Nobuhiro, Numata, Oda, Ogino, Ohara, Okamoto, Okumura, Omachi, Onishi, Onoyama, Orimoto, Otani, Sasaki, Sato, Shimizu, Shimozono, Shintaku, Shirasawa, Takayama, Takesako, Takeuchi, Toi, Umade, Uyemura, Yamane, Yamashita, Yasuda,Yokota, Yoshida, Yoshioka, Yumiba.
 
Still not too late to submit photos (scanned in jpg format) dated pre-1950's of family members who were 
incarcerated at  Poston block 318.....

CONTACT: diannerd79 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Poston block 325 book Done!

Poston block 325 book... DONE!

 HURRY & SUBMIT YOUR SCANNED PHOTOS

 (jpg format)

It's not too late!!

Index of family names: 

Akiba, Arima, Doi, Endo, Fujimura, Fujita, Hamamoto, Hamasaki, Harada, Hayakawa, Hiramatsu, Hirashima, Hirata, Hiratsuka, Horii, Hirose, Ichiyama, Ikebuchi, Ikeda, Ikuta, Kagawa, Kagiwada, Kakushima, Kamikawa, Karaki, Kasai, Katayama, Kawai, Kihara, Kinoshita, Kubo, Kunitake, Kuroda, Kurokawa, Mano, Masuda, Masumoto, Matsuda, Matsushita, Mimura, Monzai, Mori, Morikawa, Nakahara, Nakashima, Nishimura, Nitta, Ogino, Okada, Okiura, Sakai, Sakamoto, Sakata, Samejima, Sasaki, Shimada, Shimohara, Shiraki, Starkey, Tabata, Takahashi, Takaoka,Takasaki, Tanaka, Tanouye, Tozaki, Tsuchiya, Tsuchiyama, Tsumori, Ujita, Uota, Uyeda, Watari, Yamada, Yamagata, Yamakawa, Yamamoto, Yamashita, Yanagi, Yasuda, Yoshida.

 If interested, contact: diannerd79 (at) yahoo (dot) com

[Submit scanned photos to same email address]

Poston block book update

Now available Poston block 307 book!

.......A directory of "who's who"within 

each apartment at Poston Block 307....

If interested, contact: diannerd79 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Index of family names
Aburamen, Akahoshi, Aoki, Aoto, Arikawa, Doi, Ezaki, Fujimitsu, Fukumoto,

Fukushima, Goto, Hara, Hasegawa, Hashikaku, Hayakawa, Higashi, Hiramoto, Hirano, Ichimura, Ikeda, Imamura, Inouye, Ito, Iwai, Iwata,Kakihara, Kamiura, Kato, Kawamoto, Kirihara, Kobayashi, Koga, Kuranaga,Masui, Matsumoto, Matsumura, Mayeda, Mayekawa, Miyata, Miyazaki, Murakami, Murakawa, Nagano, Naito, Nakamura, Nakayama, Niino, Oda, Okamura, Ono, Oyanagi, Ozawa, Sasaki, Sasano, Sato, Seki, Shima, Shinomoto, Soyama, Sugimura, Tahara, Tajiri, Takahashi, Tanaka, Tashiro,Teraji, Togasaki, Tsuneta, Umino, Uyeda, Yamaguchi, Yamamoto, Yamanaka,

Yamashita, Yasumatsu, Yumen.

Poston Arizona block 305 and block 222 books are done!

Announcing...."Poston, Arizona Block 305" and "Poston, Arizona Block 222" books are DONE!!!!

.......A directory of "who's who"within each barrack....

Poston block 305 last names: Abe, Araki, Asaida, Asami, Fujisaki, Fukuba, Goromaru, Hamachi, Hanada, Hasama, Hashimoto, Hayakawa, Higashida, Hiramatsu, Horibe, Ikeda, Ikemura, Ishida, Kaga, Kageyama, Kajikawa, Kajioka, Kashima, Katayama, Kawahara, Kishi, Kitauchi, Kiyomoto, Kobayashi, Kodama, Koike, Kunisada, Kunishige, Kurihara, Mayeda, Miyamoto, Mori, Morioka, Nagata, Nagatoshi, Nakata, Nakatsu, Niioka, Nishimura, Oda, Okada, Okamura, Osato, Ota, Saita, Saito, Sato, Shinoda, Suyeda, Suzuki, Tahara, Taira, Tanaka, Tashiro, Tateichi, Tateiwa, Terada,Teranishi, Uchida, Wumino, Yamada, Yamamoto, Yokota, Yoshida, Yoshii, Yoshimura.

Poston, Arizona Block 222 last names..... Adachi, Akahori, Asakura, Collier, Dohi, Fujita, Goto, Hanaoka, Hatakeda, Honma, Ihara, Ikenaga, Ikuma, Iriye, Ishihara, Iwanaga, Kaneko, Kato, Kimura, Kiuchi, Koda, Kono, Kubota, Masumoto, Matsumoto, Matsumura, Mayebo, Minakawa, Mizuki, Moriyama, Muragishi, Nagahama, Nakaji, Nakanishi, Nakashima, Nakayama, Natsume, Nishimoto, Nishioki, Nishita, Ogawa, Ohama, Oka, Okada, Okajima, Omura, Sakaguchi, Sakamoto, Shohara, Taguchi, Takahashi, Takemoto, Takata, Taniguchi, Umino.


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