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Visual Communications and 50 Years of Asian Pacific American Stories

“Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, we were subjected to stereotypical portraits or invisibility,” Eddie Wong recalls. “We knew we could make a ...

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Tad Nakamura, His Life and FSN 1972

Los Angeles’s Japanese American community has always been ‘home’ to filmmaker, Tad Nakamura. Growing up in West LA and playing basketball with other Japanese ...

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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 ...