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10 Little-Known Stories About Rohwer Concentration Camp

If there’s one true thing about studying history, it’s that there’s always more to learn. Less (in)famous than sites like Manzanar ...

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Madeleine Sugimoto - Part 1

“I think that as a child, I feel that I was protected because my parents and their friends and my grandparents never really spoke about ...

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A Journey to Jerome

Otousan, Obasan, Ojisan, how was the train ride? My father, aunt, uncle, and their family traveled about 2,000 miles by train from the Fresno ...

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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II

The Hoshidas’ Journeys Through Angel Island during World War II

George Yoshio Hoshida was arrested and detained on February 6, 1942. Information in his file at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park ...

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The Forgotten Story of Japanese American Zoot Suiters - Part 1

Sus Kaminaka was a zoot suiter: one of the many young people in 1940s America who embraced a distinctive, working-class urban aesthetic characterized by flamboyant ...

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Falling in love: Courtship in a Japanese American internment camp

During the opening months of World War II, almost 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them citizens of the United States, were forced out of ...

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Nikkei Agriculture in Orange County, California, the Masuda Farm Family, and the American Way of Redressing Racism - Part 4 of 6

Read part 3 >> By late December of 1941, the armed services ceased accepting Japanese Americans either as volunteers or draftees, even though the Selective Service ...

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Will We Feel the Ghost of the Past at Jerome?

14-8-C…A few years ago, this series of numbers and a letter were meaningless to me. Then I happened to find my father’s photo ...

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PAUL HOWARD TAKEMOTO and ALICE TAKEMOTO: On Resettlement, Revisiting the Past, and Reconnection - Part 2 of 2

Read part 1 >>REVISITING THE PASTIt took a visit to a cemetery in his father’s hometown in Hawaii—where he learned that his middle ...

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PAUL HOWARD TAKEMOTO and ALICE TAKEMOTO: On Resettlement, Revisiting the Past, and Reconnection - Part 1 of 2

Little Tokyo one of my favorite places feels like I’ve come home when my mom was young my grandfather took her thereto eat Chinese ...