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Many notable events of 1969—the first landing on the Moon, the Woodstock Rock Festival, the Stonewall Riots, and the New York Mets World Series ...
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Here we have a first for the Nikkei Uncovered poetry column - a collaborative piece between two wondrous young Nikkei, both University of California, Los Angeles ...
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Lillian and I met serendipitously coming home from the 2018 Manzanar pilgrimage where, on a long, three and a half hour bus ride from the ...
Read Part 1 >> Going back into Manzanar again, was there one person that gave you that nickname “the songbird”? I don’t know who gave ...
“I always thought when I was a little girl, ‘I’m going to be a singer on the radio.’ I thought I would not get ...
Growing up Sansei in my part of California’s San Gabriel Valley meant you didn’t have to work very hard to stay connected to ...
Read Part 1 >> NEXT STOP: PORTLAND Our next stop was in Portland, Oregon to visit their magnificent Japanese Garden. When Nobuo Matsunaga, the former ambassador ...
Erica Wei, Moet Kurakata, and Lauren Matsumoto were participants in the Manzanar Committee’s pilot project, Keeping Japanese American Incarceration Stories Alive, which took a ...
In stories of the forced removal and incarceration, certain types of stories recur. There is the shock of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent exclusion orders ...
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Grand niece of Farewell to Manzanar author has ‘dream job’ at Minidoka site. The Wakatsuki name is inextricably linked with the World War II incarceration ...
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