Bill Mauldin – An Artist with a Cause

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Our Man on the Hill: Sidney Yates — Part 2

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Our Man on the Hill: Sidney Yates — Part 1

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The wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans resulted in thousands of former inmates migrating throughout the United States. Among the cities to welcome resettlers leaving camp, Chicago received the most. By the end of the war, over twenty thousand Japanese Americans called Chicago home, making it the second-largest Japanese American community …

Joe Oishi’s Nursery and The Promised Year

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In October 2022, during a trip to Berkeley, California to do research at the Bancroft Library, I stopped in at Eastwind Books. Normally, when I go book shopping, I usually look for copies of older works that are either out of print or unavailable online. Sometimes, by good fortune, I …

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Dr. T.T. Yatabe, the American Loyalty League, and the Birth of the JACL

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Today, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is the largest Japanese American community organization in the United States. Founded in 1929, the organization has evolved over the course of the 20th century from a small group of community leaders to a national civil rights organization with chapters across the U.S. Yet …

Father Francis Caffrey – A Priest for the Stars and Students Alike

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In my previous columns on Maryknoll clergy, I profiled several noteworthy priests and nuns who assisted Japanese Americans during their wartime incarceration. The vast majority of these clergy worked in Los Angeles, where the largest Japanese American enclave in the United States existed until 1942. While most priests worked solely …

Remembering Roger Daniels—A Reflection

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Last Saturday, I was saddened to learn of the passing of the esteemed historian Roger Daniels at 95 years old. To say that Daniels helped shape Japanese American history would be a real understatement. Over the course of his five-decade career as a historian at UCLA and the University of Cincinnati …

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William Saroyan and the search for "The Japanese American Novel"

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Normally, when we think about “California” cities, our minds tend to drift to popular destinations such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, or San Diego. Often absent from the list of locations noted as part of the “cultural heartland” of California are the cities and towns that dot the landscape from …

Horse Stall Housing, Spoiled Ham, and Other Stories of Life in Tanforan - Part 2

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Horse Stall Housing, Spoiled Ham, and Other Stories of Life in Tanforan - Part 1

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The second largest of the so-called “assembly centers” with a peak population of 7,816, Tanforan was built on the site of the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, California, near the present site of the San Francisco International Airport. Its inmate population arrived in late April and early May 1942, and …