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JCCCW President Kurt Tokita recalled a meeting over 10 years ago when the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington’s project was on the table. …
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Read Part 2 >> When my husband and I were first married, we lived in a building on the 4300 block of North Kenmore owned …
Read Part 1 >> Dad was a Kibei, born in Hawaii, came to the States to teach Japanese. He was put into Tule Lake War …
Fred Yamaguchi: That was like Japantown. 43rd and Ellis.Karen Kanemoto: But now, I don’t think there are any Japanese Americans down there.Yamaguchi: I don’t think …
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Issei are identified with similar characteristics that Nisei would concur: came to this country with no English skills, no money, dreams of success and possibly …
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Life is a river Shall I fight the current or Let go and float home Papa removed his hat and leaned into the cab window. “Can you …
Akio “Lawrence” Nakagawa, a Kibei from the Sacramento Delta region, was interned at the Topaz, Utah camp. Answering the loyalty question “No-No,” he was transferred …
A headline first written by Frank Chin in 2010, “Don’t F**k With No-No Boy,” captures the insistence with which audiences should reject the recent stage …
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Both of my parents were young children when E.O. 9066 was signed. My mom, Machiko Okazaki, lived in four places from the ages of four …
Takashi and Shizuko (nee: Mori) Kato and their two children, Roy Shigehisa and Ikuko, moved from Inglewood to West Los Angeles just prior to evacuation …
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