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Nanka Nikkei Voices

A Typical Story of Survival & Regrowth After the War

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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Saying Goodbye

Gaining early educational release from incarceration at Gila River War Relocation Center in 1943, my Nisei grandparents moved to St. Paul, MN, where my grandfather ...

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Prison Island Anchieta: The Site of Numerous Tragedies—“Winning or Losing Feud” Resulted in Imprisonment of 170 People; Water Source Named Bica Shindo Renmei

A federal prison was built on Alcatraz Island in California, in the United States, which became known as the impossible-to-break “prison island” and was later ...

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Japanese American National Museum Store Online

Author Mark H. Rawitsch: More Than Just a House

“I won’t sell. You can murder me, you can throw me into the sea, and I won’t sell.” Mr. Jukichi Harada’s sharp ...

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"Prejudices don't fall off like an old coat": more on Japanese-Americans relocated to Pittsburgh

In March we looked at length at the history of Japanese American forced relocation to Pittsburgh, where an old North Side orphanage was to house ...

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Japanese American National Museum Store Online

Blossoms and Thorns: A Community Uprooted: New documentary portrays a vanishing industry

Richmond, California, in the year 1942 calls to mind the bustle of naval shipyards and a whirlwind of housing construction. A semi-rural town before World ...

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Japanese American National Museum Store Online

When Heroes Weren’t Welcomed Home: Author Linda Tamura on Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence

“I can still recall the pit in my stomach as I read full-page ads urging Japanese American residents not to return to their community from ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #1 — ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

One Grain of Rice

My mother was always reminding me to eat every grain of rice from my bowl: “Hito tsubu mo nokosanaide tabenasai.” It’s the equivalent of ...

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Voices of Chicago

My Life Between Two Cultures - Part 2

>> Part 14. The Inoue Family Meets Their American RelativesIn 1942, my relatives, like all the West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans, were shipped to a ...

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The Recollections of a “Mixed” Woman Raised in Post-war Japan: Author of “Little Caterpillar in Training” Grace Lee

In the beginning of summer, I had scheduled to meet with a woman for the first time at a café in Little Tokyo. As a ...