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Bisa AIKO and her 102nd birthday
“Congratulations, Bisa , on your birthday” and a smiling grandmother AIKO receives, from each of he…

Katsuo Higuchi • Feb. 17, 2023

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Aiko Higuchi Brazil families generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration
Aiko Higuchi Brazil families generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration
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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Flight
South Bay-based poet/writer and dancer, Genie Nakano, lets us celebrate with her as she looks forwa…

Genie Nakano +1 • Feb. 16, 2023

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Genie Nakano literature poetry
Genie Nakano literature poetry
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Redress: A film about the Office of Redress Administration
For Emi Kuboyama there was “one story that has been haunting me in a way for decades.&rdquo…

Edna Horiuchi • Feb. 15, 2023

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Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Emi Kuboyama Jon Ayon law legislation Office of Redress Administration Redress (film) Redress movement Todd Holmes United States
Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Emi Kuboyama Jon Ayon law legislation Office of Redress Administration Redress (film) Redress movement Todd Holmes United States
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Japanese in Chicago before the war
Chicago Women Missionaries and Japanese Women - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Hishikawa Yasu came to Chicago in 1886, guided by Presbyterian Sarah Cummings…

Takako Day • Feb. 14, 2023

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Chicago Illinois Japan missionaries religion United States women
Chicago Illinois Japan missionaries religion United States women
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Being Blasian
In the midst of the global pandemic, Sascha Koki discovered something unexpected—her curls. S…

Summer Nakaishi • Feb. 14, 2023

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Asians Black people Blasians culture hapa Hawaii identity Japan racially mixed people Sascha Koki United States
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Japanese in Chicago before the war
Chicago Women Missionaries and Japanese Women - Part 1
As I continue to uncover the Japanese who came to Chicago before the war, what attracts me the mos…

Takako Day • Feb. 13, 2023

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Chicago Illinois Japan missionaries religion United States women
Chicago Illinois Japan missionaries religion United States women
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Ask a Historian: How Did Alaska Natives Wind Up Inside Japanese American Concentration Camps?
Brian Niiya delves into the hidden history of a group of Alaska Natives caught up in the WWII incar…

Brian Niiya • Feb. 13, 2023

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Alaska natives concentration camps World War II camps
Alaska natives concentration camps World War II camps
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Tessaku
Setsuko Moriya — Part 2
Read Part 1 >> So they're doing chicken farming and so I imagine for them they, they ha…

Emiko Tsuchida • Feb. 12, 2023

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Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Sacramento Setsuko Moriya Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
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My Name is Neal
Journal Entry #2/14/23: "The Most Dangerous Day..."
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 11, 2023

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cartoonists cartoons charity gifts humor Valentine's Day
cartoonists cartoons charity gifts humor Valentine's Day
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Bill Mauldin – An Artist with a Cause
Few artists captured the wartime experiences of American GIs like Bill Mauldin. One of the most p…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Feb. 10, 2023

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Bill Mauldin cartoonists discrimination interpersonal relations racism World War II
Bill Mauldin cartoonists discrimination interpersonal relations racism World War II
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