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Patti Hirahara - One woman's mission to preserve the memory of Yakima Japanese pioneers
More than one thousand people of Japanese descent were shipped to incarceration camps from the Yaki…
Bruce Rutledge • April 29, 2019
Family keepsakes tell the story of Japanese-American life in Yakima Valley
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yoshiko Hide Kishi gazed at the small buckskin moccasins in her cupped hands as sh…
Tammy Ayer • Jan. 15, 2019
Canadian Nikkei’s Pilgrimage to J.A. Internment Camps - Part 3
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TOPAZ MUSEUM-DELTA, UTAH
After Moab, we drove straight west to Delta where t…
Chuck Tasaka • July 27, 2018
75 years after Japanese internment: Poetry tradition ripped away from Yakima Valley along with creators
Eight Japanese men gathered at the Tamagawa Tei restaurant on First Street in downtown Yakima to re…
Tammy Ayer • May 3, 2018
Beyond the Panama Hotel: More Sites Related to Japanese American History in Washington State
In the Pacific Northwest, there are a couple of famous sites related to Japanese American history, …
Tamiko Nimura • April 11, 2018
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Seattle
Spokane
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temporary detention centers
United States
Vashon Island
veterans
Washington
World War II
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Uprooted and interned
Kara Matsushita Kondo was born in Wapato, a town with a thriving Japanese population. There were Ja…
Tammy Ayer • April 10, 2018
Yakima’s Japan Town no longer there, but rich history remains
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Karen Lee has lived in Yakima since 1973. In that time, she never heard of Yakima&…
Tammy Ayer • March 29, 2018
Valley families recall ancestors' difficult stand against treatment of Japanese neighbors
Esther Short Boyd was working as usual at the R.R. Short Hardware store in Wapato when a man walked…
Tammy Ayer • March 14, 2018
From Sumo to Baseball, Japanese Americans in Yakima Valley Embraced Sports
WAPATO, Wash. —Growing up in Hawaii, Frank Iseri mastered the physically challenging responsi…
Tammy Ayer • Feb. 23, 2018
Yakima Valley's Residents of Japanese ancestry found ways to thrive at Heart Mountain
Esther Boyd received the Western Union telegram the morning of Sept. 1, 1942.
“Arrived safel…
Tammy Ayer • Feb. 6, 2018