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Yuji Ichioka Papers, Ca http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3z09n6d9 No online items Yuji Ichioka papers, ca. 1880-2002 LSC.0242 Eiichiro Azuma processed both the 2005 and 2009 acquisitions; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé. UCLA Library Special Collections ©2006 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections Yuji Ichioka papers, ca. LSC.0242 1 1880-2002 LSC.0242 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections Title: Yuji Ichioka papers Creator: Ichioka, Yuji Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0242 Physical Description: 681 Linear Feet(162 boxes and 2 oversize boxes) Date (inclusive): circa 1880-2002 Abstract: Yuji Ichioka (1936-2002) was an American-born Japanese (Nisei) historian who pioneered in studies of Japanese American experiences. Coining the term "Asian American," Ichioka was also instrumental in developing an academic field of Asian American Studies since the late 1960s. The 2009 addition to the original Ichioka papers (processed in 2005) consists of personal documents, materials relating to the establishment and initial operation of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Ichioka's involvement in the early phase of an ethnic studies program at UC Berkeley and community activism in northern and southern California, correspondence, conference planning and participations, publication drafts, research materials, teaching materials, and subject files. Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information. Restrictions on Access Open for research. STORED OFF-SITEF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information. Restrictions on Use and Reproduction Property rights to the physical object belong to YRL Special Collections. Literary Property rights to the physical objects are retained by the creators and their heirs. The copyright to the duplicates of manuscript papers belongs to the archives that house them. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The Regents do not hold the copyrights. Processing Note Eiichiro Azuma processed both the 2005 and 2009 acquisitions. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Gift of Emma Gee, 2005. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Yuji Ichioka Papers (Collection Number 242). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. Biography Yuji Ichioka (1936-2002) was born in San Francisco, California, as a son of Japanese immigrants. Having interned at the Topaz internment camp in Utah during the Pacific War, he returned to the San Francisco bay area with his parents and siblings to start a new life in Berkeley, where he stayed until his high school graduation in 1954. Ichioka then served in the United States Army to station in Germany, and after his discharge, he attended UCLA and graduated in 1962. Intending to pursue graduate study in Chinese history with a fellowship from Columbia University, Ichioka moved to New York City, but he quit the program soon after. Having served as a youth parole worker with the New York State Training School for Boys, he traveled to Japan for the first time in the winter of 1966, an experience that inspired him to take up the study of Japanese language and pursue research on Japanese immigrant experience in the United States. After he returned from the trans-Pacific trip, Ichioka enrolled in an MA program in Japanese history at the University of California at Berkeley, which he completed in 1968. Around this time, he also played a central role in forming the Asian American Political Alliance, and Ichioka, along with his partner Emma Gee whom he had met at Columbia, steered the younger generations of Asian Americans to a civil right/antiwar movement. Recruited as the instructor of the first Asian American studies course at UCLA, Ichioka took part in the establishment of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center while maintaining his ties to early leaders in UC Berkeley's ethnic studies. By 1972, Ichioka permanently moved to southern California, where he continued his research and writing on Japanese American history until his death in September 2002. At UCLA he was Research Associate and Adjunct Associate Professor of History. Ichioka was married to Emma Gee, a scholar of Asian American woman history, as well as a writer and labor activist. During his career as a professional historian, Ichioka traveled numerous times to Japan for research and teaching while writing two major monographs: The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (1988), and Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History (posthumously published in 2006). Other publications of his Yuji Ichioka papers, ca. LSC.0242 2 1880-2002 LSC.0242 include; 2 edited volumes: Karl G. Yoneda, Ganbatte: Sixty-Year Struggle of a Kibei Worker (1983), and Views from Within: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (1989); 2 annotated bibliographies: A Buried Past (1974), and A Buried Past II (1999); and a dozens of path-breaking journal articles in Amerasia Journal, Pacific Historical Review, Agricultural History, and California History, among others. Ichioka was among the first few Asian Americanists who showed an interest in studies of Asian immigration to Latin America when such a subject was unconceivable in the field, and he took a few trips to Peru and Brazil for networking and preliminary research for a comparative study project and international conference on Japanese in the Americas. Scope and Content Collection consists of Yuji Ichioka's correspondence (1970-2002), research papers, writings, teaching materials, rare Japanese American periodicals, and miscellaneous subject files. The research papers contain photocopies of Japanese immigrant publications and newspaper clippings, Japanese diplomatic papers, American and Japanese magazine articles, and U.S. National Archives materials, which are related to various aspects of Japanese American experiences running mainly from the 1880s to 1945. Though these materials provided a basis for the writing of his articles and books, there are great deals of primary sources that are untapped and therefore help researchers pursue original historical studies. Researchers should be also aware that because Ichioka periodically deposited some of his research acquisitions, especially Japanese American personal papers and rare books, as part of UCLA's Japanese American Research Project collections, the materials included in this collection constitute only portions of what Ichioka had collected for over thirty years of his career. Drafts and revision notes of Ichioka's published articles and books are included in this collection, as the instructional materials that he developed are also available. His professional correspondence, albeit closed for use for ten years from accession, would be useful for understanding Ichioka's day-to-day operation as a scholar and teacher, his service to the fields of Japanese American history and Asian American Studies, and his interactions with scholars and intellectuals in not only the United States but also Latin America and Japan. Others papers pertain to Ichioka's role in the development of Asian American archival collections at UCLA and the organization of academic conferences The 2009 addition represents the materials that have been discovered at Ichioka's residence since the original acquisition was processed in 2005. This collection of 23 boxes consists of Yuji Ichioka's personal files (inc. school materials), papers relating to the establishment and operation of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the first Asian American studies course he taught there in 1969, his involvement in the nascent phase of UC Berkeley's ethnic studies program and community-based political organizing in northern and southern California, correspondence, materials pertaining to conference planning and participations, publication manuscripts and drafts, research materials, teaching materials, and miscellaneous subject files. Most of the listing categories used for the organization of this collection are drawn from the original 2005 collection, though a few new categories are created. The most notable of those new categories are the first two container lists, which provide a good glimpse into Ichioka's formative education at UCLA and UC Berkeley, as well as his role in the development of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Because his involvement in-and commitment to-community activism was closely tied to his scholarly activities with the Asian American Studies Center, the materials relating to these matters are placed side by side in the second category of Container List, and researchers should be aware of their inseparable nature. It is also notable that the materials in the same category include those produced by and relating to Emma Gee, who worked together with Ichioka in the Asian American movement. The materials pertaining to the planning of and the networking for a comparative study of Japanese in North and South America would be also valuable in light of Ichioka's pioneering vision for this area of transnational historical research. Whereas the
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