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‘Monumental’ research on Manzanar

Manzanar occupies a special place in my consciousness and conscience. I was first introduced to this eastern California site in 1972 by a California State ...

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What’s New At Manzanar National Historic Site: Construction On Historic Women’s Latrine Has Begun

With the 25th Anniversary of Manzanar becoming a National Historic Site coming up on March 3, 2017, and with the much more significant anniversary happening ...

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What’s New at Manzanar National Historic Site: Classroom Exhibit Is Taking Shape

Slideshow above: Manzanar Classroom Exhibit—Work In Progress. Photos by Gann Matsuda are ©2016 Manzanar Committee. All rights reserved. All materials shown here should be ...

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Don’t Call Me Prisoner, My Name is Richard - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> In the early days at Manzanar, before most of the internees arrived, there weren’t many internees or military personnel in the ...

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Don’t Call Me Prisoner, My Name is Richard - Part 1

Living an American Life My father, Richard Shigeru Nishimura, was born in Los Angeles in 1922 and celebrated his 94th birthday this year. He shares ...

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Sue Kunitomi Embrey (January 6, 1923 – May 15, 2006)

Educator, activist, author, and Manzanar Committee Chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey dedicated her life to shedding light on the unjust incarceration of 120,000 people of ...

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Revisiting Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray: An interview with Robert Nakamura and Karen Ishizuka

Fifteen years after its 2001 release, the award-winning documentary film Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray will be screened at the Japanese American National Museum ...

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JANM Photo Exhibition: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank

The 1942 incarceration of people of Japanese descent in America and Canada following the bombing of Pearl Harbor has been portrayed in scholarly histories, works ...

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Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920-1940: A Preview of an Exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Camera Clubs Besides spiritual philosophies and artistic approaches, there is human drama behind this exhibition. Dedicated Japanese American photographers operated in a ...

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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest II

Masao and the Bronze Nightingale

Boyle Heights, 1940 “Hey Masao, where did you score those fine drapes, ese?” “Over on Brooklyn and Soto. Manny Garcia’s uncle has a tailor ...