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Jobu Yasumura migrated to the US with his family in 1907 and grew up in Washington state, where he graduated from Washington State College in 1925. He subsequently obtained a BA in Theology from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1928 and worked for a time with the YMCA in New York, before returning to Washington in 1935. In 1942 Yasumura, his wife Rae, and their children were incarcerated first at Tule Lake and later at Minidoka, where they were active community leaders. Owing to his prior experience and work in the camps, in 1943 Yasumura secured employment with ABHMS Department of Cities, becoming a deputy to John Thomas and taking over Thomas' work with Japanese Americans in 1944. Yasumura took a leading role in ABHMS work with relocated and returning Japanese Americans until 1948, and from 1948 to 1951 served as Field Representative for work with postwar European migrants and refugees.
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Jobu Yasumura migrated to the US with his family in 1907 and grew up in Washington state, where he graduated from Washington State College in 1925. He subsequently obtained a BA in Theology from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1928 and worked for a time with the YMCA in New York, before returning to Washington in 1935. In 1942 Yasumura, his wife Rae, and their children were incarcerated first at Tule Lake and later at Minidoka, where they were active community leaders. Owing to his prior experience and work in the camps, in 1943 Yasumura secured employment with ABHMS Department of Cities, becoming a deputy to John Thomas and taking over Thomas' work with Japanese Americans in 1944. Yasumura took a leading role in ABHMS work with relocated and returning Japanese Americans until 1948, and from 1948 to 1951 served as Field Representative for work with postwar European migrants and refugees.