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I have never attended a Tule Lake Pilgrimage. However, I was incarcerated at Amache, one of the other ten US concentration camps. Since 2018, I ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Renee Tajima-Peña is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and professor of Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Her documentary projects focus on immigrant ...
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Read Part 1 >> Later, you returned to Japan as a graduate student and stayed for many years, working, exhibiting, and studying both traditional forms (pottery ...
Artist Erica Kaminishi, born and raised in Mato Gross, Brazil, is one of the hundreds of thousands of Nikkei Brazilian dekasegi who have migrated to ...
I was born in Japan, and when I was eight years old my parents decided that we were going to emigrate to Brazil. We spent ...
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“Some people think my work looks like it’s speaking something like a megaphone,” says Shinpei Takeda. “And some people think it is trying to ...
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