Spokesmen for Japanese Nationals to Count of Morales letter

Spokesmen for Japanese Nationals to Count of Morales letter

Description

Title Proper Spokesmen for Japanese Nationals to Count of Morales letter
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1945
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
A one-page letter, dated February 26, 1945, from the Spokesman for Japanese Nationals (Jisaburo Wakabayashi), to the Count of Morales, Consul General of Spain. The letter requests that the Japanese nationals in Rosebery be sent their share of a special fund set up by the Imperial government for their welfare. It also requests that the Rosebery nationals be sent a shipment of books that has arrived as a gift from Japan.
Name of creator
Henry Wakabayashi is the founder of Pacific Liaicon Ltd., he has helped many major projects such as the Vancouver Sky Train, the expansion of the Vancouver International Airport and the Metro Vancouver drinking water treatment program.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized in full.

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Spokesmen for Japanese Nationals to Count of Morales letter
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Terminology

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