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Shin Mune — Part 2

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Shin Mune — Part 1

“Finally, the day we received news of President Reagan signing the apology letter they had a function at the Issei Memorial building. And Papa was ...

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Rediscovering the Sugar Beet Fields 77 Years Later

During the week of October 7, 2019, a shiny white highway bus containing some 43 Japanese Canadians once again travelled the roads and streets between ...

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In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon

Chapter 5 — The Struggle Against Exclusion

A series of exclusionsNow getting used to itI spend each day farming Honda Fugetsu1 While building their community and industries, Japanese immigrants struggled against exclusionists ...

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Leaving Home: The Lives of Japanese Picture Brides

When I was nineteen years old, I moved to Japan for a year to work with no life experience outside of Canada. Japan was a ...

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Notable Japanese Americans

The 46th elementary school opening early next year in Chula Vista with a 47.5 million dollar budget will bear Saburo Muraoka’s name. I ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #4 — Nikkei Family: Memories, Traditions, and Values

My Life, Our Life: The Present, The Past, and The Future

In this life we are the protagonists of a number of stories, but in many instances the actors remain unknown because their recollections have not ...

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On a Quest to Find Barracks

I spent a month in Cody, Wyoming, on an unusual mission. I wanted to locate as many barracks as I could—buildings left behind when ...

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The Fruits of Santa Clara Valley’s Asian Laborers

As Cecilia Tsu tells readers in her cogent introduction, its underlying purpose is “recovering the intertwined history of the Santa Clara Valley (in California) when ...

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Issei Pioneers - Hawaii and the Mainland 1885-1924 - Part 11

Read part 10 >> DESERTS TO FARMLANDS           Resolved to become           The soil of the foreign land,            I settle down.1 Throughout the Pacific and Rocky Mountain ...