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On a warm spring day last year, members of the Japanese Peruvian community filled the pews of the Church of Christ Presbyterian in Chicago not …
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Read Part 1 >> The following is the story of Bill Nakashoji’s family’s experience, as he remembers it, and from what he was told by …
This story began as one of a series of narratives, for my children, about my life in the prospecting business. I wrote the tale some …
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“Half or more of those removed from the West Coast and incarcerated in concentration camps were children.” In recent years, this has to have become …
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When I was growing up, my family aspired to meet the “model minority” myth that was set up to direct how we Nikkei should think …
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Read Part 2 >> Can you take us through your process of writing and collecting information for Sideways? Most of my memoir is based on …
Read Part 1 >> As you were in Chicago during the tumultuous times of the Civil Rights movement in the US, did you feel any …
Growing up Nikkei has been both a curse and a blessing. The generation that bore the brunt of the most ‘cursed’ aspects of being Asian …
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I want to thank the author of this study for putting a name to the sense of purpose I felt in writing an essay for …
You’d think after a lifetime of growing and harvesting peaches, you’d get sick of eating them. But the Masumoto family still loves peaches and serves …
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