Videos consist of recordings of television programs about Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment. Many of these cassettes feature Hirabayashi as a subject. Audio cassettes are primarily recordings of interviews conducted by Hirabayashi on Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment. Other recordings are from the Religious Society of Friends annual meetings. Some recordings are of Hirabayashi speaking on radio channels about his experience during WWII.
Text reads: SPKR: Gordon K. Hirabayashi. Recorded at 3 3/4 i.p.s. By Joe Grant Masaoka. Commence with side 1 (side 2 is unusable due to static). Continue with Reel 2.
Audio low, recording on Japanese-American internment camps in the USA during WWII from the radio. Text reads: Part of WBEZ-7M Chgo, Concentration Camps USA. Audio low, recording on Japanese-American internment camps in the USA during WWII from the radio
Vancouver, B.C. Palm and taro card readings done for Gordon Hirabayashi's birthday. Text reads: Palm reading by Rosalind, Taro card reading by Rosalind.
Seattle Washington. Conversational interview by Gordon Hirabayashi with Floyd Smol, a field secretary during WWII from a Quaker organization, and assisted Japanese-Americans prior, during, and after the Japanese-American internment.
Conversational interview with Dr. George Ishiwara in his office, conducted by Gordon Hirabayashi. They discuss his life as a Japanese-Canadian, president of the JCCA, and life pre-war and after.
Society of Friends lecture series at the Canada Yearly Meeting, Gordon Hirabayashi speaks about his life. Text reads: S.P. Gardner lecture:CYM 14: viii: 85
The majority of the records are handwritten letters (written in kuzushiji) received by Tokiwa from Japan and friends across Canada. They are assumed to be from pre-WWII to after the war and his time in Toronto. Some photographs of the people of Ocean Falls, B.C. are also included. Due to the language skills needed to read these letters, no further or detailed descriptions have been created.