Jiro Onuma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1904
Place of Birth: Kanegasaki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Date of Death: 27-Jun-1990
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Jiro Onuma
- Jiro Onuma (?? ??, Onuma Jiro, February 2, 1904 – June 27, 1990) was a first-generation (issei) Japanese American gay man who was incarcerated in the Topaz Concentration Camp in Topaz, Utah in 1942.
- Onuma was born in Kanegasaki, Iwate Prefecture in 1904 and moved to the United States in 1923.
- The collection of his photos and personal belongings held by the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco is the only material in this archive that tells us about the life of a gay Japanese American man who lived in San Francisco before World War II and was interned in an incarceration camp during the war.
- Tina Takemoto, a fourth-generation Japanese American artist and a visual studies scholar at the California College of the Arts, created a film titled Looking for Jiro (2011) that was based on Onuma’s archival materials and received the Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival.
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