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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 ...
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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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Imagine the president signs an order incarcerating not just you, but your entire family: your kids, parents, aunts, uncles, and everyone related to you. Bank ...
December 5, 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the best known instance of mass unrest in the one of the WWII concentration camps. The Manzanar ...
“I remember my father saying how angry he was and that he would never again vote. And he never did." —Grace Izuhara Grace Izuhara’s ...
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