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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

The Japanese Consulate and Naka & Pearl Nakane - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Naka and Pearl Nakane and Chicago Did Naka Nakane ever come to Chicago? How much political influence did he have in Illinois ...

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

The Japanese Consulate and Naka & Pearl Nakane - Part 1

Introduction On January 30, 1941, a long telegram was sent from Yosuke Matsuoka, a minister of foreign affairs, to Japanese embassy in Washington and forwarded ...

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

The Japanese Mutual Aid Society and Charles Yasuma Yamazaki - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Charles Yasuma Yamazaki and the African American Community Yamazaki led an interesting life, a life full of change. Born in Kochi in ...

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

The Japanese Mutual Aid Society and Charles Yasuma Yamazaki - Part 1

Background Pre-World War II Chicago had no segregated residential enclaves for Japanese residents like the Japantowns and Little Tokyos on the West Coast, but this ...

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Windy City Nikkei: Bite-sized glimpses of Japanese American Chicago

With a family of six and a full-time job, researching and writing full-length articles about family and community was becoming exceedingly difficult. However, the thirst ...

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

Eizo Yanagi - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Returning to our questions about Eizo Yanagi, what kind of contacts did he actually have with African Americans in Chicago? Most of ...

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

Eizo Yanagi - Part 1

Introduction Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the FBI began a nationwide campaign to detain “enemy aliens,” conducting home searches and ...

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Atypical Japanese Women - The First Japanese Female Medical Doctor and Nurses in Chicago - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Hisa Nagano and Natsu Sakaki In June 1886, Mary Clement Leavitt, the first representative of the worldwide missionaries of the WCTU, came ...

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Atypical Japanese Women - The First Japanese Female Medical Doctor and Nurses in Chicago - Part 1

According to The Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago “has been and remains a world-class religious center with global influence.”1 Beginning in the mid-19th century, Japan ...

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A Family Saga: The Remarkable History of the Ito Sisters of Prewar Chicago

One intriguing aspect of Japanese American history is the study of some remarkable families and clans, which have included generations of siblings and cousins who ...