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Aiko Ebihara

“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 ...

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“Chapters” by Trevor Allred: The Power of Storytelling

Trevor Allred is a founding part of Heritage Future, a nonprofit organization dedicated to storytelling as a tool for community betterment, and a moderator on ...

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Faces of Civil Rights, Then and Now: Paul Kitagaki Jr.'s Gambatte! Project

“The faces from the photographs staring up at me as I searched for my family in the National Archives have always haunted me,” Paul Kitagaki ...

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No-No Boy Author John Okada, Rediscovered

I Must be Strong I know now for what war I was born. Every child is born to see some struggle, But this conflict is ...

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Finding His Identity: Mark Nagata on Being a Sansei and Kaiju vs Heroes

Currently featured at the Japanese American National Museum is Mark Nagata’s Kaiju vs Heroes exhibition. Mark Nagata is a third-generation, Japanese American artist who ...

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The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations

Perspective and Thoughts on the 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage

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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The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations

Reflections on the 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage

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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Nikkei Chronicles #7 — Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

A Promise

Almost 60 years ago, a promise was made by a girl who was ten years old. I was that little girl and remembered that day ...

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Q&A with Artist Kip Fulbeck: The Continuing Legacy of The Hapa Project - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> DN: Now that you’re a parent, are the conversations about identity you may have had with your kids similar or different ...

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Q&A with Artist Kip Fulbeck: The Continuing Legacy of The Hapa Project - Part 1

Artist/writer/performer Kip Fulbeck launched The Hapa Project in 2001, photographing more than 1,200 people of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander heritage. His ...