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Being of only Japanese ancestry and growing up in the South Bay (Torrance) I have never questioned …

Kayla Tanaka • Sept. 3, 2019

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50 Objects, 50 Stories: The Untold Stories of Incarcerated Japanese Americans during WWII

“50 Objects/50 Stories of the American Japanese Incarceration” is a project made up of …

Kate Iio • Aug. 30, 2019

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An Activist’s dilemma: the life of Katsuma Mukaeda

For many of the issei interned by the Justice Department during World War II, their years in confin…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Aug. 29, 2019

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Little Tokyo - Coming Full Circle: Tsutomu Maehara and his family, Jo Ann and Chef Akira Hirose, embody the Little Tokyo spirit

Community control over land in Little Tokyo is one of the few strategies that will help prevent d…

Miya Iwataki • Aug. 14, 2019

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The JABA Legacy Project: Judge Holly J. Fujie—An Inspirational Woman Who Was Herself Inspired by Japanese American History and Community

Ambition, motivation, dedication, and determination are just a few words that describe a trailbla…

Kayla Tanaka • Aug. 6, 2019

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Tad Nakamura, His Life and FSN 1972

Los Angeles’s Japanese American community has always been ‘home’ to filmmaker, Ta…

Kayla Tanaka • July 26, 2019

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She keeps alive the stories of Japanese American internment

MUKILTEO — Judy Kusakabe’s life began at the Puyallup fairgrounds. It was Camp Harmony…

Andrea Brown • July 17, 2019

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Sansei: On Being Japanese American in a Time of Crisis

[In April 2017 I was asked to speak on what my Japanese American identity means to me, and how that…

Stanley N. Shikuma • July 10, 2019

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Interview: Yoshimi Suzuki, Director of Megumi Nursery School

I want to create an environment for early childhood education where children can learn Japanese com…

Misa Murohashi • July 10, 2019

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Dutch Newspapers and Nikkei Stories - Lessons from Japanese-American Incarceration and Redress from Afar

On the morning of Friday, October 30, 1992, readers in the Netherlands opened copies of the NRC Han…

Jonathan van Harmelen • June 27, 2019

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