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Mine Host, Torahiko Kawakami, boniface of the San Jose Civic Unity Hostel, Manager, Buyer, Chief Clerk, Mess Superintendent aide, Chief Cook, and bottle washer. That about sizes up the duties of this prominent San Jose Issei whom relocation converted from a store keeper to a Hostel Manager. He is shown here in front of the Hostel which has outgrown the old Japanese Language School and overflowed into the Buddhist Temple. Mr. Kawakami was drafted from Heart Mountain by his Japanese and Caucasian friends for the job early in June. In July he was joined by his family, Mrs. Kawakami, Yuri, Lloyd and Menlo and his married daughter, Mrs. Teruyoshi (Mary) Terada, her husband and children, Minoru, Mitsuyo, and Sachiye, all from Heart Mountain. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- San Jose, California. 7/14/45

Contributing Institution:

The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.