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“During all of those long years of World War II, I took that Evacuation Day very personally. For me, as an eighteen year old, it ...
The World War II American concentration camp experience was the darkest time in Japanese American history. It was also a black mark on America, as ...
I have never attended a Tule Lake Pilgrimage, however, I was incarcerated at Amache, one of the other ten U.S. concentration camps of WWII ...
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In my family, we never told stories about the past. No one talked about what it was like to come to the United States from ...
The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was a very dark chapter in the history of the country—a chapter that should never ...
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“I could draw what I think your feelings might be about Richard’s story,” my daughter suggested. Richard Murakami was sharing his story about his ...
Read Part 1 >> THE OUTBREAK OF WAR I bid farewellto the faces of my sleeping childrenAs I am taken prisonerInto the cold night rain — M ...
This year was my third Tule Lake Pilgrimage and it was extra special for me. An important event at the pilgrimage is an “Intergenerational Group ...
As a Sansei, I've been exploring the issue of “family separation,” given the multiple ways that families are being separated due to unjust border ...
Read Part 1 >> NEXT STOP: PORTLAND Our next stop was in Portland, Oregon to visit their magnificent Japanese Garden. When Nobuo Matsunaga, the former ambassador ...
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