Postcard from Tori and Kengo Tajima to Elizabeth Page and friends, September 15, 1945
In light of wartime restrictions on returning to their homes on the West Coast as well as fears of lingering anti-Japanese sentiment, many families became transplants to the Midwest and East Coast after their release from camp. In this postcard to friends, the Tajimas state that, rather than returning to California, "Higher Wisdom has decreed that we stay where we are. So Cleveland has become our home town."
Elizabeth Page Harris Papers (MS 771), MSSA.
Letter from Elizabeth Page to Mrs. Y. Kishi regarding portrayal of Japanese Americans in the media, July 21, 1943.
Even though Mrs. Kishi fears that the American public views her “as a spy or something really bad,” Page reassures her that a large segment of the American public is still “staunch friends” to Japanese Americans, empathetic to their situation.
Elizabeth Page Harris Papers (MS 771), Box 80, Folder 1733. MSSA.
