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Mr. Shokichi Ishimaru and Toshimatsu Tsutaoka are pictured washing the celery plants before they are sent to the field to be planted. Both are former Rohwer residents and arrived shortly after the beginning of May. Mr. Ishimaru and his wife, Toki, and son, Shiji, honorably discharged from the United States Army in 1944, live at camp #5, Bacon Island, Stockton, California, as do Mr. Tsutaoka and his wife, Shizuye, son, Tommy, daughters, Alice and Mary. Mr. Ishimaru also has two daughters now living in Chicago; Mrs. Aki Sakamoto is employed by a large publishing concern, and Itsu Ishimaru is a senior nurse at the Walther Memorial Hospital. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- Stockton, California. 6/30/45

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.