Kenji Yamamoto

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What we know

1879 - 19?
Born in Kobe, Japan. Went to California. After working on the CR&R Railroad, Kenji settled in Marble Springs. He made money with a laundry and sent for his promised bride, Hatsuki, in 1902. The laundry prospered, and they retired to San Francisco in 1925. He was forcibly resettled at the Amachi Relocation Camp near Granada, Colorado in 1943; his wife chose to return to Japan rather than to relocate. His only son, Ichiro, died1 in the Japanese-American Regiment in Italy, 1944.

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Sources

Amache Colorado: Grenada Relocation Center, 1943. Pamphlet about the camp.
Available at the Western History Department, Denver Public Library.

Holsinger, M. Paul. Amache: the Story of Japanese Relocation in Colorado.
University of Denver master's thesis, 1964. Available at the Western History Department, Denver Public Library.

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