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Movement against registration by pro-Japanese camp leaders, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944

Miné Okubo1942-1944

Japanese American National Museum

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Five pro-Japanese camp leaders, wearing hats and overcoats, and carrying sticks, appear to intimidate an undecided man against signing the general registration, which questions loyalty. A sixth man, sympathetic to the others stands in the right foreground. A woman in a dark coat, Mine Okubo sticks her tongue out at one of the men. A single barrack is visible in the upper right background.

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  • Title: Movement against registration by pro-Japanese camp leaders, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
  • Creator: Mine Okubo
  • Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
  • Date Created: 1942-1944
  • Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
  • Physical Dimensions: H: 9.75 in, W: 14.5 in
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Japanese American National Museum. For licensing and reuse, contact JANM.
  • External Link: Mine Okubo Collection
  • Medium: ink, paper
  • Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.175)
  • Context: This is one of 198 ink drawings Mine Okubo included in Citizen 13660, her graphic memoir, which was the first of its kind and captured her experience at Tanforan and Topaz, during the two years in which she was incarcerated.
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