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The Oda Boys

Sometime around 1932, Bachan went to the funeral of a family friend in Suisun with a big plate of homemade sushi and came home with ...

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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II

George Hishida – A Life in Photography Interrupted by World War II

George Mioya Hishida was born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1896 to a Christian missionary father who was absent from the family for long periods of ...

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

In My Parents’ Words – Issei Voices from Department of Justice Camps

My father was the resident minister of the Seattle Buddhist Church. The construction of the temple on 14th Avenue & Main Street was nearing completion. It ...

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Producing Japanese American History: An exploration through the JANM archives

Part 5 of 5 – History is Found: Sumi and Masao Shigezane

Over the previous four installments of this series, I have attempted to demonstrate many of the ongoing issues here behind-the-scenes at the Japanese American National ...

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Ono Family during World War II

Letters from Camp - Part 3

Read Part 2 >>In all, the documents and letters, even telegrams, showed that there were many pleas for hearings to be held so that he ...

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Ono Family during World War II

Letters from Camp - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>In 2003, in response to a request I’d submitted to the National Archives in Washington, DC for documentation relating to my ...

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Ono Family during World War II

Letters from Camp - Part 1

These were not letters from a summer camp like the funny one from a young homesick camper as written by songwriter, Allan Sherman, in his ...

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From Densho's Archives

Real Friends: Standing by the Japanese Americans

"Everywhere there is community feeling to be mended, vicious legislation to be defeated, many urgent jobs calling for attention from real friends of the real ...

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孤独な望郷 ～ フロリダ日系移民森上助次の手紙から

第６回 猫と話し、日本の本を読む

南フロリダの大和コロニーの一員として渡米、コロニー解体後もひとり最後まで現地のとどまり生涯を終えた森上助次は、戦後、義理の妹一家にあてて手紙を書きつづける。ひとり暮らしのなか ...

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孤独な望郷 ～ フロリダ日系移民森上助次の手紙から

第３回 小さな友だち

南フロリダの大和コロニーの一員として渡米、コロニー解体後もひとり最後まで現地のとどまり生涯を終えた森上助次は、戦後、義理の妹一家にあてて手紙を書きつづける。あるとき ...