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About a year ago, a friend and I were boarding an elevator in a downtown high-rise. I pushed the button for the fifth floor. My …
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For Japanese Americans of my generation (second generation Nisei over 60), the source of our moral and cultural values is both clear and easily defined. …
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Akio “Lawrence” Nakagawa, a Kibei from the Sacramento Delta region, was interned at the Topaz, Utah camp. Answering the loyalty question “No-No,” he was transferred …
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One of the things I have finally learned is that there are late people and early people. There are late families and early families. And …
Both of my parents were young children when E.O. 9066 was signed. My mom, Machiko Okazaki, lived in four places from the ages of four …
When the war came to a close, many of our friends started to leave camp. My brother Yukio just seemed to disappear at the first …
I spent my childhood years during the 1950s in the San Fernando Valley. My parents, like a number of other Nikkei families, were flower growers …
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*Editor's Note: This article was written in 2004 and Fugetsu-do is currently celebrating its 112th anniversary. My grandfather, Seiichi Kito, was born in Gifu, in …
An elderly black man who daily caught a bus that took him from Watts to his job in Burbank was quoted as saying that he …
I thought it was very unfair of my parents to make me go to Saturday School to learn Japanese. All the other kids I knew …
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