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#532 Guests: Japanese Billionaires update, Stepfanie Kramer, Yakov Smirnoff, Sarah Douglas, Amelia Island and the Baron de la Doucette, 1988 April to 1988 May
Collection Name: Robin Leach Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Audiovisual Collection
Box/Folder: Box 22
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Original Japanese block print art by Kiyoshi Saito, gambling cats and dogs painting reproductions by Arthur Sarnoff, French restaurant menu reproductions, and UNLV Special Collections photograph exhibit board, undated
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Collection of Graphic Art
Box/Folder: Flat File 03
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Russell, Andrew B., "Japanese Casualties in the Company Towns: Nevada's Peculiar Case of Mass Internment and Forced Evacuation," from the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies "Selected Papers in Asian Studies," number 51, approximately 1994
Collection Name: Sue Fawn Chung Collection on Asians in Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 05
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General Motors (GM) Technical Center brochure, 1964 New York World's Fair Exhibit "The Avenue of Progress" report, photographs of exhibit models, exhibit brochures, and GM New York office floor plans, and newspaper clipping of Reynolds with visiting Japanese reporters, 1957-1966
Collection Name: Frank Reynolds Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 16
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Ah'So, dinner menu
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"Hearts of Gold and Hostile Times: Wartime Reactions of the 'Japanese Question' in Churchill County" paper by Andrew B. Russell and reproductions of correspondence from Nyogen Senzaki, a Rinzai Zen monk, when Senzaki was imprisoned at Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, Wyoming during World War II, approximately 1993 to 2000
Collection Name: Sue Fawn Chung Collection on Asians in Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 04
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#517 Guests: The 100th Episode: Elizabeth Taylor, Japanese Billionaires and a look back at stories with Adnan Khashoggi, The Sultan of Brunei, Prince & Princess Thurn und Taxis, Malcolm Forbes, Donald Trump, Joan Collins, Sophia Loren, Julio Iglesias, Dr. Ruth and Andy Williams, approximately 1984 to 1989
Collection Name: Robin Leach Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Audiovisual Collection
Box/Folder: Box 05, Digital File 00
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Nanyu Tomiyasu oral history interview
Oral history interview with Nanyu Tomiyasu conducted by Andrew Russell on March 22, 1987. In this interview, Tomiyasu discusses his father's large-scale commercial farm in Las Vegas, Nevada and the amount of produce the farm produced through the 1920s. He expands on the impact of the 1922 railroad strike, particularly in regard to the Japanese population in the city. He recounts the general lack of discrimination and segregation against Japanese residents in Las Vegas, how Japanese families integrated with the community and how they maintained their cultural traditions. Later, he begins to discuss the impact of World War II on Japanese in the people living in the western states, Las Vegas' response to its Japanese residents, and how relocation and internment impacted families.
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Letter from William Hosokawa, image 001 of 003: photographic print
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Sachiko Young oral history interview: transcript
Oral history interview with Sachiko Young conducted by Mikaela Nettlow on December 5, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Sachiko shares her upbringing in Fukoka, Japan and how she and her family moved frequently as a child. She talks about meeting her husband, an American military man, while visiting family in Tokyo. Sachiko discusses their marriage and birth of their child, their move to San Jose, California, and their travels back and forth from Japan before settling in Las Vegas, Nevada. She shares stories of visiting casinos with friends, working in hotel coffee shops, and what life was like for her and her family. Sachiko also talks of how she and her husband both faced racial prejudice from their families and the difficulties of learning English as a second language.
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