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Read Part 1 >> After you were in training, you were aware that it was leading up to the occupation of Japan? Yes, we expected …
"After they gave us the redress, it just really relieved all of us who had been in the camp. Because camp was sort of a …
Read Part 1 >> [To Digger] I think it’d be interesting to talk about your first impression of Tule Lake and arriving. Digger Sasaki (DS): …
“They had soldiers and jeeps with machine guns, you know, patrolling the camps. It was kind of exciting in a way.” -- Digger Sasaki Digger Sasaki …
Otousan, Obasan, Ojisan, how was the train ride? My father, aunt, uncle, and their family traveled about 2,000 miles by train from the Fresno Assembly …
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Bill Shishima grew up eating gohan along with lingua (tongue), seso (brain), and menudo (tripe soup). His father ran a grocery store near Olvera Street, …
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George “Horse” Yoshinaga, a longtime columnist for The Rafu Shimpo and The Kashu Mainichi, passed away peacefully on Monday at his home in Gardena. He …
Photographer Russell Lee (1903–86) is best recognized for his work with the Farm Security Administration (FSA). His photographic career extended from 1935 until his retirement …
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Sus Kaminaka was a zoot suiter: one of the many young people in 1940s America who embraced a distinctive, working-class urban aesthetic characterized by flamboyant …
Read part 3 >> By late December of 1941, the armed services ceased accepting Japanese Americans either as volunteers or draftees, even though the Selective Service …
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