Koji Tasaka Essay
Description
| Title Proper | Koji Tasaka Essay |
| Date(s) | 2003 |
| General material designation |
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
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| Scope and content |
File contains one ten-page essay, entitled "Dad", written by Yvonne Wakabayashi upon
her father Koji Tasaka's death. The essay contains a detailed account of Koji's life,
interspersed with photographs of him and his family. Also contains one photocopied
page from a book with a Tasaka family tree.
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| Name of creator |
Koji Tasaka
was the patron of the Tasaka family. He was the third child and second son of lsaburo
and Yorie Tasaka, he became the oldest son when Hajime, second child and first son,
died as a youngster. He served as President of the Japanese Canadian Citizen's Association,
was a life long member and Steward of the Japanese United Church, and was teacher
and principal of the Japanese Language School before the war and after the internment.
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| Immediate source of acquisition |
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research
Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
| Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
| Fonds | Koji Tasaka Family Collection |
| Series | Family Textual Materials |
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Koji Tasaka Essay
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