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    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   Title:Mr. Tanimoto's Journey;\nDate:2018; \nGenre:Documentary;\nReleased:;\nDirector:Jessie Dizard;\nProducer:Jessie Dizard;\nWriter:;\nScreenplay:;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:;\nStarring:Jim Tanimoto (interviewee); Michael Magliari (interviewee); Sarah Pike (interviewee); Jamie Gilmore-Wilson (interviewee); Judy Tanimoto (interviewee);\nMusic:;\nCinematography:Dan Burns; Dayne Gradone; Karsten Kaufmann;\nEditing:Jacquelynn Coon; Dayne Gradone;\nStudio:Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology, Cal State University, Chico;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:27 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:;\nTrailerLink:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n  <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n  <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n   <p>\n    RGMediaType:films;\nTitle:Mr. Tanimoto's Journey;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Individual versus society; Injustice; Power of the past;\nGenre:Documentary;\nPoV:Told from perspective of elderly Nisei man looking back;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:World War II-Resistance and dissidence-Segregation and Tule Lake [86];\nGeography:;\nChronology:1940s;\nFacility:Tule Lake [10] - Newell, California;\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Documentary film about Gridley, California, farmer and former\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tule_Lake\" title=\"Tule Lake\">\n   Tule Lake\n  </a>\n  inmate Jim Tanimoto that focuses on his wartime incarceration and on the postwar memory of that time. The film is built around interviews with Tanimoto and footage of him at his farm and at a Tule Lake Pilgrimage, along with interviews with his daughter and granddaughter. Tanimoto and his family went to Tule Lake directly in July 1942 and were placed in Block 42. He was among the many inmates in that block who resisted filling out the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Loyalty_questionnaire\" title=\"Loyalty questionnaire\">\n   loyalty questionnaire\n  </a>\n  and were subsequently imprisoned and held for a time at\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tule_Lake_isolation_center_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Tule Lake isolation center (detention facility)\">\n   Camp Tulelake\n  </a>\n  , a former CCC camp. He was eventually allowed to return to Tule Lake and then returned to Gridley in 1945, where he nonetheless faced a great deal of discrimination from locals. Tanimoto and his family also talk about the postwar silence about the incarceration,\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Redress_movement\" title=\"Redress movement\">\n   redress\n  </a>\n  , and the importance of telling the story. Filmmaker Jessie Dizard used period country blues music as a soundtrack to the historical images.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The story leaves out the important detail that Tanimoto and his family lived outside of\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Military_Areas_1_and_2\" title=\"Military Areas 1 and 2\">\n   Military Area 1\n  </a>\n  , which is the reason they didn't go first to an \"\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Assembly_centers\" title=\"Assembly centers\">\n   assembly center\n  </a>\n  ,\" going directly to Tule Lake in July after the army decided to remove Japanese Americans from the eastern part of California as well. Tanimoto also claims to have returned to Gridley with his family in February 1944, months before the exclusion order had been lifted; the Tule Lake Final Accountability Record indicates that they returned in February 1945 after the West Coast had been opened up to Japanese Americans in January.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n  Might also like\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Resistance at Tule Lake (film)/\" title=\"Resistance at Tule Lake (film)\">\n   <i>\n    Resistance at Tule Lake\n   </i>\n  </a>\n  2017;\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/From a Silk Cocoon (film)/\" title=\"From a Silk Cocoon (film)\">\n   <i>\n    From a Silk Cocoon\n   </i>\n  </a>\n  (2005);\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Rabbit in the Moon (film)/\" title=\"Rabbit in the Moon (film)\">\n   <i>\n    Rabbit in the Moon\n   </i>\n  </a>\n  (1999)\n </p>\n</div>\n",
    "moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   Streaming link:\n   <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.csuchico.edu/alva/projects/2017/mr-tanimotos-journey.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    https://www.csuchico.edu/alva/projects/2017/mr-tanimotos-journey.shtml\n   </a>\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/429/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Jim M. Tanimoto interview\n   </a>\n   by Tom Ikeda (primary) and Barbara Takei (secondary), Gridley, California, Dec. 10, 2009. Densho Visual History Collection, Densho Digital Archive.\n  </p>\n  <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175452\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.017 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.022 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 374/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 7727/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2007/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n  <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    9.001      1 -total\n 27.41%    2.467      1 Template:Databox-Films\n 25.82%    2.324      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 15.10%    1.359      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 15.06%    1.356      1 Template:Published\n 14.67%    1.321      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n  <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4373-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175452 and revision id 33590\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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