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10 Little Known Facts of Life at Minidoka

Located in Southern Idaho, Minidoka concentration camp opened on August 10, 1942 and held some 13,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The incarcerees ...

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Crónicas Nikkei 8 — Héroes Nikkei: Pioneros, Modelos a Seguir e Inspiraciones

Planeta Watanabe: Influencias de un poeta nikkei

La poesía peruana ha dado grandes nombres (César Vallejo, César Moro, José Santos Chocano, Blanca Varela y siguen firmas) entre los que ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Over $3 Million for Action #1: "Shazam!!"

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Superheroes we can all use on a regular basis ...

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デカセギ・ストーリー

第三十三話 「カレンが日本へ戻らないって」

高校生だったトシエは、同級生のイヴァンと結婚し、その5ヶ月後に双子の赤ちゃんを産んだ。当時19才だったイヴァンは大学進学を諦め、スーパーのレジ係 ...

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Power of Our Stories

50 Objects, 50 Stories: The Untold Stories of Incarcerated Japanese Americans during WWII

“50 Objects/50 Stories of the American Japanese Incarceration” is a project made up of 50 objects that each give a raw, true narrative of ...

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An Activist’s dilemma: the life of Katsuma Mukaeda

For many of the issei interned by the Justice Department during World War II, their years in confinement posed serious questions of loyalty and identity ...

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Promoción 89. De dekasegi a residentes: 30 años - Parte 2

Lea parte 1 >> MOOKA, SEGUNDO HOGAR No todos estaban preparados para el choque cultural y el duro régimen laboral que encontraron en Japón ...

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Back Where I Belong

As I watched the circus of race and denigration that is the White House, Congress, and American society in July, I tried to remember how ...

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Ken Magazine and Prewar anti-Japanese Propaganda

One of the larger causes of Executive Order 9066, and the U.S. government’s wartime confinement of Japanese Americans, can be found in the ...

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Promoción 89. De dekasegi a residentes: 30 años - Parte 1

Treinta años son media vida. Es lo que tiene de transcurrida la historia de los peruanos que un día decidieron ir a Jap ...