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Kingi’s Kajukenbo: A multigenerational, multiracial family legacy in Inglewood, Calif.

This article is a follow-up to the writer’s original “Living in South Los Angeles — Today as a Japanese American” story. This story further explores ...

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What We Save, How We Save, How We Love: On Family and Community Archives

I’ve been thinking about what we save.  I’ve been looking through one of my oldest auntie’s scrapbooks. Because I know that it ...

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Family Histories in Seattle’s Nikkei Community

Dragon in Seattle — Ideguchi Family History

At first, her voice is scratchy as her phone connects to mine across thousands of miles of sea, me sitting in a dorm room at ...

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Finding Asian American Family Histories: Genealogist Marisa Louie Lee

“I will never forget seeing my great-grandfather’s photograph in his immigration case file,” Marisa Louie Lee recalls. “The moment I opened the folder and ...

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Her Grandfather Was Sent to an Internment Camp—And Never Returned

This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a ...

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Speaking engagement: “Back to California after 100 years with Misaki Matsui” - Q&A; with Misaki Matsui

An opportunity to reflect on my family history After working at an advertising firm in Japan, Misaki Matsui headed to America on her own. Now ...

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Shinmoto Family - Part 3

Read part 2 >>The Shinmoto family was back together again in the Los Angeles area by late 1946. Father and son, Tony, had set up ...

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Shinmoto Family - Part 2

Read part 1 >>It was August 1942 when we boarded trains to unknown places. I remember going through Los Angeles with the shades drawn; the ...

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Shinmoto Family - Part 1

The Shinmoto family history in America dates back to 1923, when Tsuneo Anthony (Tony), then five months old, and his father, Tsunetaro (1897-1972) and mother ...

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PAUL HOWARD TAKEMOTO and ALICE TAKEMOTO: On Resettlement, Revisiting the Past, and Reconnection - Part 2 of 2

Read part 1 >>REVISITING THE PASTIt took a visit to a cemetery in his father’s hometown in Hawaii—where he learned that his middle ...