| scope and content | The series consists of files of correspondence primarily between Hidaka and members of the Japanese Canadian community, to whom he served as consultant, in part through his firm: Kunio Hidaka and Associates. There is also correspondence with the Canadian government and others written by Hidaka on behalf of his clients, as well as handwritten notes relating to individual cases and some research material gathered in the course of his work. The correspondence relates to matters including immigration and economic issues.
Correspondents include: The Continental Family Cooperative, Mikizo Fujimagari, Kichitaro Hama, Carl J. Herman, Miss Tsuchiye Hiraishi, Sanuemon Hirota, Bunji Hisaoka, A. Ikichi, James Yoshiki Imada, Immigration Branch, J. Itonaga, Hyosaku Iwasaki, Mrs. Tomo Jinde, Kiochi Kakino, Kazo Kamachi, Mary Midori Kanaya, Isamu Kariya, Ayako Kariya (nee Oye), Jisaburo Kasho, Mrs. Kono Kitano's passport and visa, Uzo Kosugi's old age pension application, Kuichi Koyanagi, Yeasuke Kubodera, Harry Kumano, Sajiemon Kuramoto, Meijiro Kurokawa, Mrs. Toku Ishii, Mrs. George Kutsukake, T. Maikawa Store liquidation in 1948, Tokio Maikawa's passport application to go to Japan to be the president of the Nikka Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha; general contractors and construction engineering company. (Mr. Maikawa was formerly president of T. Maikawa stores at 365-369 Powell Street and operated a restaurant.) Misao Maikawa (nee Nakamura, wife of Tokio) and their children Minako, Yoko included in the application. Tsuenechichi Matsuoka, George Yoshiro Miyagaki, Enai Mori, Kyoshi Morimoto, Kikuzo Morino (Mrs. Aka Katsuno), Kanezo Nagao, Isuke Nagata, Mitsuo Nakamura, Toyeki Sakaguchi, Koichi Nakano, Hideo Nasu (son of Bunkichi Nasu), Jujiro Nishihama, Kisako Nishimoto, Jutaro Nishimura, Sawaichi Obayashi, Takeo Oikawa, Tadishi Okamoto, Toshiro Okamoto, Tamaichi & Kasumi Okamoto, Reizo Shigei Shimotakata, Street and Railwaymen's Union & The Toronto Transportation Commission agreement 1947, Rapid Transit for Toronto booklet 1945, Toronto Transportation Commission statements 1947 & 1948, newspaper clipping of the statement of 1948. Kenzo Tomiyama, Kichizo Uchido, Fred Yoshikazu Urabe, R. Uyeno - Kazuo Fukushima, Tomoichi Uyesugi, Morimitsu Uyemura, Shintaro Yamashita, Koichi Yamamoto, Isuke Yonemitsu. |