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“When my kids ask me what I was doing during the war, I can only say that I was a soldier,” said Robert (Bob) Sato ...
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How do we mark an event in time? The Etruscans used the concept of saeculum, the period of time from the moment something happens until ...
Congratulations to author and cultural manager Thomas Girst for providing the literary and historical commentary appended to the new German translation of John Okada’s ...
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I Must be Strong I know now for what war I was born. Every child is born to see some struggle, But this conflict is ...
One intriguing window into the world of John Okada’s landmark 1957 novel No-No Boy is the study of how it was first received. An ...
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Read Part 1 >> So what happened in the camps? Your family voluntarily went. Bob Kaneko (BK): Well they voluntarily went to Auburn. And they got ...
Sadly, Mr. Kaneko passed away on September 18, 2016. I regret that he wasn’t able to read his interview and hope that this can ...
This is the story of a rank-and-file supporter of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, one of the many never named who chipped in two ...
Akio “Lawrence” Nakagawa, a Kibei from the Sacramento Delta region, was interned at the Topaz, Utah camp. Answering the loyalty question “No-No,” he was transferred ...
A headline first written by Frank Chin in 2010, “Don’t F**k With No-No Boy,” captures the insistence with which audiences should reject the ...
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