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My grandmother Kazuko Kuwabara passed away recently, and I can’t help but feel that a piece of history died with her. She was the only …
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On a warm spring day last year, members of the Japanese Peruvian community filled the pews of the Church of Christ Presbyterian in Chicago not …
The Centennial of 1977 celebrating the arrival of Manzo Nagano, the first Japanese to land in Canada, inspired many younger Nisei to start learning about …
“The general term strandees, as applied to American citizens of Japanese ancestry, refers to those persons who had gone to Japan and who for various …
“Objects have the longest memories of all; beneath their stillness they are alive with the terrors they have witnessed.” —Teju Cole, The New York Times …
Read Part 1 >> Did you ever wonder why goldfish and koi ponds have been a long tradition in landscapes around Orange County? Most …
One of the 1982 oral histories recalling Wintersburg’s past was conducted with Mr. Clarence Iwao Nishizu (by Professor Emeritus Arthur A. Hansen as part of …
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Cole Kawana, a sixth grader at Seven Arrows School, recorded an oral history of his great-uncle, Arthur Ichiro Murakami, an atomic bomb survivor. He then …
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Somos tres o cuatro nikkei en la clase. La profesora de historia nos pregunta si tenemos algún pariente que fue deportado a Estados Unidos durante …
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はじめに 1920年代から30年代にかけて、日本の統治下であった台湾から多くの若者が日本本土に留学した。いわゆる内地留学である。専門分野は多岐にわ…
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