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"George" Uchida
Shikao "George" Uchida


 * Born: 22 July 1925 (Cucamonga, California or Uplands, CA)
 * died: August 6, 2004


 * Not to be confused with: George Uchida (engineer) - Nisei male, born March 14, 1929 in Florin California ( https://revelation.unomaha.edu/ohms-viewer/viewer.php?cachefile=UNO0225_au.xml )

Sammy Isamu Uchida
His oldest brother is Isamu Uchida, and he is referenced in HCUA Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the U.S.--Vol. 15. Isamu Uchida was employed at Poston camp as a judo instructor. Uchida and a man named George Fujii are arrested for the beating of Kay Nishimura. Their arrests trigger the Poston Strike of November 1942. They are the two men mentioned here: Poston_War_Relocation_Center

https://archive.org/details/HCUAInvestigationOfUnAmericanPropagandaActivitiesInTheU.S.Vol.15/page/n263/mode/2up

TESTIMONY OF NORRIS W. JAMES, FORMERLY PRESS AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, COLORADO RIVER WAR RELOCATION PROJECT, POSTON, ARIZONA

Mr. Steedman. Right at that point I would like to continue with the reading: November 15-, 2 a. m. The internal security office, under Mr. Miller, arrests and places in jail George Fujii, Nishimura's former brother-in-law and Isuma Uchida, judo wrestling instructor. At that point could you tell the committee whether or not Isuma Uchida was employed by the project as a judo instructor? Mr. James. He was.

James H. Steedman


 * http://www.mansell.com/eo9066/NIHIMS/Nisei_IHIMS.html
 * https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/jarda/ucb/text/cubanc6714_b136j06_0024.pdf
 * https://archive.org/details/HCUAInvestigationOfUnAmericanPropagandaActivitiesInTheU.S.Vol.15/page/n263/mode/2up
 * https://www.jamsj.org/manabu/yosh-uchida
 * http://nvcfmemorialwall.org/profile/view/294
 * https://www.postonpreservation.org/search1/07%2F22%2F1926/shikao

--Jerimee (talk) 14:28, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Yoshihiro Uchida
Yosh, another brother, mentions that Isamu Uchida's "american name" was Sam.

Can you also name your siblings? Starting from the oldest?

Oh sure. My oldest brother was Sam, his name was Isamu. And my sister right after that was Kazuko. And I was the third. And my fourth one was Suehiro or Henry. Then we had Shikao or George. So they were all known by their American names: Henry, George and Sam.

My sister's name is Kazuko Maehara. Then I have two younger brothers, Henry Suyehiro Uchida and George Shikao Uchida.

Yoshihiro Uchida was born in Calexico, California, on April 1, 1920. His father, Shikazo Uchida and his mother, Sue Itoh were from the Kumamoto prefecture in Japan. Uchida was the middle child of three brothers: Sam, Henry, and George, and one sister, Kazuko. Shikazo Uchida came to the United States in 1898, while his mother arrived later as a picture bride. The Uchidas spent their early years in the United States working as dairy farmers in the Imperial Valley. After Yoshihiro was born, the family sold the dairy and moved back to Japan. They eventually returned to California a few years later. In fact, Shikazo and Sue sailed on the last boat that left Japan before the Immigration Act of 1924 went into effect.


 * father: Shikazo Uchida
 * mother: Suye Itoh
 * sister: Kazuko Maehara
 * youngest brother: George was born later in Upland, California. George was, my youngest brother, was born in 1925 in Uplands, California. George, the youngest, came back in '54.
 * brother: Henry - Henry Suyehiro Uchida - came back from Japan to USA in 1955
 * oldest brother: Sam, or Isamu, and he was five years older than Yosh. (1915) "Sam—Isamu—he passed away in 1948"

cite

 * Title: REgenerations Oral History Project, Volume 4: San Jose Region
 * Date: 2000
 * URL: https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft600006bb&chunk.id=d0e24005&brand=oac4&doc.view=entire_text

--Jerimee (talk) 15:24, 28 October 2021 (UTC)