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Lessons from Coach Sab's Generation

I had the great good fortune to speak to Mrs. Ainsworth’s class at St. Patrick’s Elementary about the 1942 “evacuation” and incarceration, in ...

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The Red Cross Hero of the Japanese Internment Camp

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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Man Overcame Racism to Become Racing Legend

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 ...

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Alice Kanagaki

“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 ...

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Tadashi Tsufura - Part 2

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 ...

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Tadashi Tsufura - Part 1

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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Sandy Kaya - Part 2

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 ...

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Sandy Kaya - Part 1

“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 ...

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Something About My Great-Grandmother

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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Peachy: Changing Season Captures the Passing of a Family Farm from One Generation to the Next

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 ...