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Sometimes a hero’s greatest power is humanity. Kinzo Yamamoto never forgot the time he was touched by the determination, bravery and humanity of an ...
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Kenny Hirata will tell you the most important thing to becoming a great race car driver is to concentrate, concentrate—on winning. “When that light ...
“The Japanese people are not the kind of people to sit back and feel bitter and feel sorry for themselves. They are creative, resourceful and ...
Read Part 1 >> Why do you think the parents and most Niseis never spoke about camp? When the war was going on we were the ...
In the morning you take off, and you don’t come back or see your parents until you go to bed. You went whenever you ...
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Read Part 1 >> So you spent two and a half years in Hawaii, then moved back to Berkeley. Why Berkeley? In 1948 we moved to ...
“When we got to camp it was really nice because there were all these kids, same age. From what I can remember, it was fun ...
Born in 1896, in 1919 my great‐grandmother Sueno Matsunaga (née Motoshima) of Shimomashiki‐gun, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, immigrated to the U.S. as ...
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You’d think after a lifetime of growing and harvesting peaches, you’d get sick of eating them. But the Masumoto family still loves peaches ...
*This article originally appeared on Modern Farmer on October 13, 2015. The summer of 1942 was hot, like most summers in central California. But that ...
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