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“The faces from the photographs staring up at me as I searched for my family in the National Archives have always haunted me,” Paul Kitagaki ...
I have the museum mostly to myself today. At the Cascadia Art Museum’s exhibit Invocation of Beauty, there are breathtaking portraits of famous figures ...
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 ...
Since the early days of the camera, photography has enjoyed a particular vogue in Japan. Long before the stereotyped tourist groups snapping pictures arrived on ...
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I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...
Basil Tadashi Izumi was born April 25, 1937, in Vancouver General Hospital. He was delivered by Dr. H. M. Shimokura, who later would earn the ...
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During World War II, sugar was in urgent demand. Beyond its use in food products, sugar beets were converted to industrial alcohol and used in ...
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Read Part 1 >> Can you talk a bit about your families here? I married three times and broke up three times. I have six sons ...
Torontonian Yosh Inouye, a retired 70-something photography teacher, was the one of the first to teach me about the paradox of what it means to ...
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Gary Ono’s sunny Little Tokyo apartment is a monument to the things he loves. Behind his dining room table hangs a Japanese illustrative scroll ...
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