Series documents the Kudo family’s history.

Records in this series include family trees on both the Kudo and Kawamura sides of the family; photographs, correspondence, and documents collected by Kathleen Merken and Alice Kudo about the lives of Hatsune and Minoru Kudo and earlier members of the Kudo and Kawamura families; obituaries and funerary documents relating to the deaths of Minoru Kudo and Roland Kudo; and some personal records and correspondence of Kathleen Merken.

Series documents the professional and personal activities of Minoru Kudo through his diaries and correspondence.
The series is divided into three subseries that correspond to how the materials were organized by the creators: the original diaries, original correspondence, and photocopies that were made for use in translation and for preservation purposes.
Records in this series include diaries; correspondence; and materials relating to the Kudo family’s involvement in the Japanese Canadian redress movement.

Series documents the work of Kathleen Kudo to translate Minoru Kudo’s diaries as well as the research performed by the Kudo family to document the history and experiences of the Mission City Japanese Community.

Records in this series include logs relating to the translation and photocopying activity of Kathleen Merken; her translation notes; additional documents related to ideas about publication and framing of the diaries and their historical value; and printed versions of the translations in various states of drafting. During the process of translation, Merken removed clippings and other ephemera that were initially preserved within the diaries of Minoru Kudo and placed them in their corresponding chronological place within the translations. As a result, these materials are also included within this series.

The series includes one subseries that contains the translation documents and a second that contains the research material.