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10 weeks ago, I joyfully drank sake and ate the best tonkatsu in Tokyo. 8 weeks ago, I toured snowy Hokkaido tasting their bounty of …
Read Part 1 >> For those who may not be familiar with it, can you give a summary of the events leading up to the …
“Nothing could be more systematic than the determination with which the mob picked out Japanese and Chinese windows and spared those right adjoining if they …
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Read Part 1 >> HOSTILE RECEPTION FOR OUTSIDE FARM WORKERS As at many camps, inmates were encouraged to go out on short term leave during …
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I was driving on the highway one night some years back between Denver and Boulder, when I got harassed by a couple of young white …
As I watched the circus of race and denigration that is the White House, Congress, and American society in July, I tried to remember how …
One of the larger causes of Executive Order 9066, and the U.S. government’s wartime confinement of Japanese Americans, can be found in the widespread expressions …
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Read Part 1 >> The son of two Japanese immigrants who met and married in Los Angeles, Kataoka was born in 1934 in the city’s …
Read Part 1 >> While the family was in camp, the Canadian government was doing everything in its power to rid the Japanese Canadians from …
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The Japanese Canadians were among the first non-native settlers of Salt Spring Island. The 1901 census shows 59 islanders of Japanese origin. In 1941, there …
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