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When oral historian Shanna Farrell began interviewing descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. during World War II, she didn’t make any assumptions. “They …
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May 3, 2023 marks the 100th birthday of the late Bay Area scholar and advocate Paul Takagi. As professor at UC Berkeley, Paul helped shape …
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I have long been a fan of Yoshiko Uchida, a Berkeley-based writer best known for her children’s and young adult books about the World War …
Read Part 1 >> So what happened in the camps? Your family voluntarily went. Bob Kaneko (BK): Well they voluntarily went to Auburn. And they …
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 honor …
Read Part 1 >> So you spent two and a half years in Hawaii, then moved back to Berkeley. Why Berkeley? In 1948 we moved …
“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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It is rare that I find myself reviewing a book on a friend of mine authored by still another friend, but that is the case …
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>>その160年代のベトナム反戦運動で、フリースピーチムーブメントの拠点となったバークレーで学んだことは、三重さんに「政治参加」の重要性を再認識させ…
カリフォルニア大学バークレー校の大学院修士課程に学ぶ三重綾子さんがLAを訪れ、北米沖縄県人会会員らにインタービューを行った。ジャーナリズムを専攻して…
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