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Read Part 1 >> James Ewen Edmiston, Jr., who would take his father’s name at birth, an…

Greg Robinson • Nov. 14, 2022

Home Again (book) James Ewen Edmiston, Jr. screenwriting

Farms of the Future: The Work of Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> The incarceration experience left a deep impression on Hewes. He later recoun…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 22, 2021

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Farms of the Future: The Work of Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. - Part 1

The incarceration of Japanese Americans, in addition to being a product of years of racial hatred a…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 21, 2021

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Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa Llewellyn: A Life Beyond the Iconic World War II Photo

Walk into the Manzanar National Historic Site today in California’s Owens Valley and a large …

David Tatsuo Llewellyn • July 27, 2020

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Japanese Americans and the legacy of Hugh Macbeth

The passing of Hugh Macbeth, Jr., who died in September 2019 at the age of 100, offers us an oppo…

Greg Robinson • Nov. 13, 2019

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Reaction of Brazilian Japanese community to the "JR Pass controversy"

For Japanese who have emigrated overseas, that is, the first generation, visiting Japan after emigr…

Takamichi "Taka" Go • Nov. 22, 2017

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Carrying the Torch: Wayne Collins Jr. on His Father’s Defense of the Renunciants

The inscription on the front page of Michi Nishiura Weglyn’s landmark book, Years of Infamy: …

Sharon Yamato • Oct. 21, 2014

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Defending Nikkei: Hugh Macbeth and the Japanese American Internment

Hugh Macbeth, Sr., a Black attorney from Los Angeles, is largely forgotten today, but he deserves c…

Greg Robinson • Feb. 18, 2014

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