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  • Deeper our understanding of Yuri Kochiyama with over 3,500 images, from her politicization and growth as a child to an organizer and social movement activist.
  • Read letters she wrote to servicemen, political prisoners, politicians, and old friends to reveal the complex thinker she was and the concerns that weighed upon her daily decisions in the face of political and personal turmoil.
  • Reveal her empathy towards human suffering and her tenacity of will through diary entries about her family’s removal to the Santa Anita Detention Center and the Jerome concentration camp and her messages in the Crusaders’ newsletters.
  • See links between her stories of mass incarceration and her work on behalf of political prisoners and many other issues.
  • Learn about the wrongful mass incarceration and one woman’s journey for social justice through her rare and revealing documents and ephemera left for posterity.

The Bordered World, Volume 1

Diary of Yuri Kochiyama
These daily entries were written by Yuri, age 21, at the Santa Anita Assembly Center (Avenue 8, Barrack 48). The dates from this diary begins on April 3, 1942 to June 30, 1942.

The Bordered World, Volume 2

Diary of Yuri Kochiyama
This is the second diary in continuation of Yuri’s experience during the Santa Anita Assembly Center and the reassignment to a detention facility. The dates from this diary begins on July 2, 1942 to November 26, 1942.

Santa Anita Crusaders

Scrapbook of Yuri Kochiyama
This scrapbook contains letters, holiday greetings, newspaper clippings, and a variety of communications during the incarceration period.

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Granddaughter Akemi and Marc Sardinha’s wedding, 2000. Akemi and Marc standing directly behind Yuri. (Back row, from left) Pam Wu & Eddie; Kai, Masai & Zulu; (Forming a vertical line on the left side of Yuri) Jimmy, Alison, Aliya & Khalil; (Back row on right) Tommy and Herb; (Middle row) Ryan, Julie, Audee; and (Front row) Maya, Tracy and Christopher

Deepen our understanding of Yuri Kochiyama with over 3,500 images, from her politicization and growth as a child to an organizer and social movement activist.

Read letters she wrote to servicemen, political prisoners, politicians, and old friends to reveal the complex thinker she was and the concerns that weighed upon her daily decisions in the face of political and personal turmoil.

Reveal her empathy towards human suffering and her tenacity of will through diary entries about her family’s removal to the Santa Anita Detention Center and the Jerome concentration camp and her messages in the Crusaders’ newsletters.

See links between her stories of mass incarceration and her work on behalf of political prisoners and many other issues.

Learn about the wrongful mass incarceration and one woman’s journey for social justice through her rare and revealing documents and ephemera left for posterity.

The Bordered World, Volume 1

Diary of Yuri Kochiyama
These daily entries were written by Yuri, age 21, at the Santa Anita Assembly Center (Avenue 8, Barrack 48). The dates from this diary begins on April 3, 1942 to June 30, 1942.

The Bordered World, Volume 2

Diary of Yuri Kochiyama
This is the second diary in continuation of Yuri’s experience during the Santa Anita Assembly Center and the reassignment to a detention facility. The dates from this diary begins on July 2, 1942 to November 26, 1942.

Santa Anita Crusaders

Scrapbook of Yuri Kochiyama
This scrapbook contains letters, holiday greetings, newspaper clippings, and a variety of communications during the incarceration period.

Digital Collection

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Read letters from Yuri Kochiyama to servicemen, political prisoners, politicians, and old friends.

See the links between her stories of mass incarceration and her work on behalf of political prisoners.

We invite you learn about one woman’s journey for social justice through her rare and revealing documents and ephemera left for posterity.

Diary of Yuri Kochiyama:
The Bordered World, Volume 1

These daily entries were written by Yuri, age 21, at the Santa Anita Assembly Center (Avenue 8, Barrack 48). The dates from this diary begins on April 3, 1942 to June 30, 1942.

Diary of Yuri Kochiyama:
The Bordered World, Volume 2

This is the second diary in continuation of Yuri’s experience during the Santa Anita Assembly Center and the reassignement to a detention facility. The dates from this diary begins on July 2, 1942 and ends on November 26, 1942.

Scrapbook:
Santa Anita Crusaders

© Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Yuri Kochiyama, 94.144.1. All rights reserved. The UCLA Asian American Studies Center (AASC), in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), provides access to JANM digital files through the AASC archives; any use of the JANM digital files must be requested directly with JANM (janm.org).

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Phone | 310-825-2974

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405 Hillgard Ave., Box 951546

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546

Driving Directions from Google Maps

Phone | 310-825-2974

Fax | 310-206-9844

Campus Mailcode | 154602