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Normally, I am a fearless writer, but this commission from the Chicago Japanese American Historical…

Keith Uchima • Dec. 8, 2007

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Building the Timeline ... Re-connecting to Community

Growing up as a Sansei in Chicago, I didn’t hear much about the internment camps and the post…

Laurel Fujisawa • Aug. 10, 2007

December 7, 1941

December 7, 1941 Kakaako, Honolulu, Hawaii. Sunday It is very early in the morning. I look ou…

George Suyeoka • June 29, 2007

Japanese American Redress: A View from the Midwest

Introduction I joined the staff of the JACL as its Midwest Director in October 1978 and I knew im…

William Yoshino • April 13, 2007

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On Being Japanese American...

Growing up in the 1970’s in Chicago’s near west suburbs, there were few people like me.…

Nicole Sumida • March 23, 2007

Connecting Cultures through Kimono and Sari

On a February morning when a faint hint of spring was in the air, a diverse group of Chicagoans gat…

Dean Raffaelli • Nov. 18, 2006

Day of Remembrance 2006

Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei. It never occurred to me that I would live to see five generati…

Jean Ikezoe-Halevi • Oct. 31, 2006

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Shinkichi Tajiri : World Renown Sculptor

Shinkichi Tajiri, a world renowned sculptor, celebrated his 80th birthday with a Netherlands exhibi…

Alice Murata • Sept. 13, 2006

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Sports, Community, and History: Reflections on Recording the Japanese American Experience in Chicago

Outside, the bone-chilling February winds are blowing fiercely off of Lake Michigan, but inside, th…

Alec Yoshio MacDonald • Sept. 12, 2006

Census 2000 Portrait of Japanese Americans in Metropolitan Chicago: A Portrait of Japanese Americans in the Chicago Metropolitan Area

Compared with the West, South, or Northeast regions in the US, the Midwest region has both the smal…

Mary Doi • Sept. 1, 2005

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Growing Up Sansei in Chicago

Building the Timeline ... Re-connecting to Community

December 7, 1941

Japanese American Redress: A View from the Midwest

On Being Japanese American...

Connecting Cultures through Kimono and Sari

Day of Remembrance 2006

Shinkichi Tajiri : World Renown Sculptor

Sports, Community, and History: Reflections on Recording the Japanese American Experience in Chicago

Census 2000 Portrait of Japanese Americans in Metropolitan Chicago: A Portrait of Japanese Americans in the Chicago Metropolitan Area