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“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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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