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The release of the book Citizen USA by the Japanese American National Museum has been over 75 years in the making. Written at the Manzanar ...
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Walk into the Manzanar National Historic Site today in California’s Owens Valley and a large photo of a little girl sitting on a suitcase ...
Read Part 3 >> How did you meet your wife? Well, I was in the army, so I went to a USO dance. That’s where ...
Read Part 2 >> So actually, just to backtrack a little bit. When you actually left Manzanar to Tule Lake, how did you get there? Did ...
Read Part 1 >> Can we get your parents names and then your sister’s name? My mother’s name was Tomiko. And my father’s ...
“My dad had to get rid of his business. I think that was really hard for him ‘cause he worked so hard. I didn’t ...
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James Tatsushi Ukita was born on December 14, 1920 being one of four children of Frank Masashi Ukita (Grandpa) and Tsuya Ukita (Grandma). He was ...
On April 12, 2017, I interviewed Frank Kikuchi, a local Nisei who currently lives at Hollenbeck-Palms Retirement Community. Frank, now 93 years young, was a ...
In “camp,” Dr. Masako Kusayanagi Goto was known affectionately as “Dr. K.” When the war broke out in 1941, Dr. K was in her first ...
This story is about my Auntie Yochi based on family knowledge, my memories of her, several writings about her in letters and passages in books ...
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