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The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations

My Experience with Nikkei Children at the 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage

This year was my third Tule Lake Pilgrimage and it was extra special for me. An important event at the pilgrimage is an “Intergenerational Group ...

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Canadian Nikkei’s Pilgrimage to J.A. Internment Camps - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> TOPAZ MUSEUM-DELTA, UTAH After Moab, we drove straight west to Delta where the Topaz Museum is located, although to our disappointment the ...

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Canadian Nikkei’s Pilgrimage to J.A. Internment Camps - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> NEXT STOP: PORTLAND Our next stop was in Portland, Oregon to visit their magnificent Japanese Garden. When Nobuo Matsunaga, the former ambassador ...

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Canadian Nikkei’s Pilgrimage to J.A. Internment Camps - Part 1

I have always been intrigued by and curious about the Japanese American internment history for years and have watched Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) programs religiously ...

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Wakatsuki: The Next Generation

Grand niece of Farewell to Manzanar author has ‘dream job’ at Minidoka site. The Wakatsuki name is inextricably linked with the World War II incarceration ...

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Sansei Legacy: Never Again!

When pressed, Sansei give lip service to the obvious fact that we are now old. But we don’t really believe it. In the cosmology ...

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Portland pilgrimage an opportunity to reflect after 75 years

The sun was already high in the morning sky when the train slowed to a stop at the Portland Assembly Center north of Oregon’s ...

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Sue Kunitomi Embrey (January 6, 1923 – May 15, 2006)

Educator, activist, author, and Manzanar Committee Chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey dedicated her life to shedding light on the unjust incarceration of 120,000 people of ...

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Minidoka Pilgrimage

Returning to my birthplace for the first time after 72 years wasn’t quite the thrill I might have hoped for. After all, my “home ...

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Crônicas Nikkeis #4 — Família Nikkei: Memórias, Tradições e Valores

How I Remet my Mother

When thinking of the journal theme of Nikkei families, I thought of how much my family has shaped me but how little I have included ...