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[Yukio Ozaki arriving with daughter at Pan American runway at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, May 16, 1950]
[Yukio Ozaki arriving with daughter at Pan American runway at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, May 16, 1950]
[Yukio Ozaki arriving with daughter at Pan American runway at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, May 16, 1950]

[Yukio Ozaki arriving with daughter at Pan American runway at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, May 16, 1950]

Date1950
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.31
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 7 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, May 16, 1950, Japanese section.
;An older gentleman, diplomat and past Mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki, arrives with daughter, Yukika Sohma, and is interviewed with Yukika acting as translator at the Pan American runway at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) at night in Los Angeles, California, May 16, 1950. Ozaki wears a hat and a collared cape over a suit. He is thin and has a mustache. Daughter wears a hat and a carnation lei.
1P: Ozaki and daughter interview with Caucasian man who has back to viewer.
2N: Ozaki and daughter interview with Caucasian man who has back to viewer.
3N: Ozaki speaks as daughter translates to Caucasian man writing on small pad, left, outside at night.
4N: Mrs. Shirakawa of the Rafu Fujinkai presents flowers to Ozaki as his daughter looks on, right. (Published).
Gentleman behind the daughter without a hat is Katsuma Mukaeda, representative of Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California.
5N: Ozaki stands in center flanked by daughter, left, and man in suit and eyeglasses in front of Pan American airplane. (Published)
6N: Ozaki, Yukika and another woman wearing a lei stand inside building flanked by ten men in suits.
7N: Man in double-breasted suit and circular rimmed eyeglasses stands inside airport flanked by other men.
8N: Ozaki holds bouquet of carnations as he walks beside daughter who talks with a Caucasian man at right, and Caucasian man and women at left.

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