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The Dilemma for Incarcerated Nikkei Canadians: Dispersal to Eastern Canada or Deportation to Japan …

Stanley Kirk • Nov. 26, 2018

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Behind Barbed Wire – Part 1

Editor’s Note: The words and phrases used to describe Japanese American history vary conside…

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi +1 • Sept. 5, 2018

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Advice for Modern America, from When Buddhism Was Seen as a National Threat - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Hondo Lobley: Your work reminds us that at one time in this country being Bud…

Funie Hsu +1 • July 6, 2018

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Advice for Modern America, from When Buddhism Was Seen as a National Threat - Part 1

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Buddhism was considered a threat to America. Hondo Lobley …

Funie Hsu +1 • July 5, 2018

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K.K. Kawakami, Cosmopolitan Issei Writer

One intriguing aspect of Japanese immigrant experience before World War II was the diverse intell…

Greg Robinson +1 • Feb. 22, 2018

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Ship Jumpers, Border Crossers, and Other "Illegal" Issei Immigrants

Here at Densho, we often draw parallels between the forced removal and subsequent incarceration of …

Brian Niiya +1 • Jan. 12, 2018

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Gus Hokama: carnations to excite

—“Grandpa”, why is our face different from that of other Argentines? —Gus, we are Japanese... —Are…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • July 19, 2017

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Finding Asian American Family Histories: Genealogist Marisa Louie Lee

“I will never forget seeing my great-grandfather’s photograph in his immigration case f…

Darryl Mori • July 17, 2017

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How to Remember the Wartime Japanese American Incarceration

Seventy-five years ago—on February 19, 1942—President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Exec…

Yuichiro Onishi • Feb. 24, 2017

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Dual Citizenship in a Global Society

Last September, Renho Murata, a councilor in Japan known as “Renhō”, was grilled at bri…

Akari Terouchi • Feb. 3, 2017

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Part 1: Historical Background - Deportation