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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Part 3—Wakaji's Legacy
Read Part 2 >>  Reportage or Art? Wakaji produced countless individual portraits, docu…

Dennis Reed • Oct. 3, 2022

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1920s 1930s agriculture arts atomic bomb California farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar United States Wakaji Matsumoto World War II
1920s 1930s agriculture arts atomic bomb California farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar United States Wakaji Matsumoto World War II
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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Part 2—Wakaji’s Photography
Read Part 1 >> While Tei managed the farm, Wakaji pursued his gifts. He first studied phot…

Dennis Reed • Sept. 26, 2022

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1920s agriculture artists arts California communities farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto
1920s agriculture artists arts California communities farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto
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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds
My grandfather, Wakaji Matsumoto, traveled across the Pacific Ocean to help his father in a forei…

Karen Matsumoto • Sept. 20, 2022

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agriculture atomic bomb brides California families family histories farming genealogy generations Hawaii Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture household employees immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography picture brides postwar prewar Southern California Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto wives World War II
agriculture atomic bomb brides California families family histories farming genealogy generations Hawaii Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture household employees immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography picture brides postwar prewar Southern California Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto wives World War II
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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Part 1—Wakaji’s Beginnings
Wakaji Matsumoto was like many of the young men, mostly teenagers, who came by transport ships fr…

Dennis Reed • Sept. 19, 2022

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agriculture California farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Los Angeles migration photographers photographs photography prewar Southern California United States Wakaji Matsumoto yobiyose
agriculture California farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Los Angeles migration photographers photographs photography prewar Southern California United States Wakaji Matsumoto yobiyose
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The Times of Tulelake
Located near the Oregon-California border, the ghost of what once was one of California’s two…

Kyra Karatsu • May 10, 2022

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California farms Michael Wells postwar Tule Lake (Calif.) United States World War II
California farms Michael Wells postwar Tule Lake (Calif.) United States World War II
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Moving Farewell to Beloved Heart Mountain Farmer
As far as the eye could see along Road 90 where it meets Lane 9, stretching along the vast dusty fa…

Sharon Yamato • May 5, 2022

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farmers Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Tak Ogawa United States World War II camps Wyoming
farmers Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Tak Ogawa United States World War II camps Wyoming
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Kunimitsu Nagatori, who moved to the U.S. in 1960 and has been running a farm in Oxnard since 1965, runs Nagatori Farms.
Returned to the U.S. after a short period of agricultural labor So far, we have interviewed the ow…

Keiko Fukuda • April 13, 2022

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agricultural laborers California generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Nagatoshi Farm Oxnard postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
agricultural laborers California generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Nagatoshi Farm Oxnard postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
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Promised Land: A Family’s Story About Land Lost (But Saved) During Executive Order 9066 - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Saved Land When the Yoshioka family left their farm in San Jose for Utah the…

Kristen Nemoto Jay • March 16, 2022

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Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Cortez farmers Hawaii San Joaquin Valley San Jose Thomas Yoshioka United States World War II World War II camps
Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Cortez farmers Hawaii San Joaquin Valley San Jose Thomas Yoshioka United States World War II World War II camps
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Promised Land: A Family’s Story About Land Lost (But Saved) During Executive Order 9066 - Part 1
On Feb. 19, 2022, Thomas Yoshioka will be 101 years young. There’s not much to his secret, …

Kristen Nemoto Jay • March 15, 2022

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Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps farmers Hawaii San Jose Thomas Yoshioka United States World War II World War II camps
Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps farmers Hawaii San Jose Thomas Yoshioka United States World War II World War II camps
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Harvests Lost – the Koda Family’s Claim
In my previous article for Discover Nikkei, I described my trip to the UC Davis archive and my rese…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 7, 2022

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Amache concentration camp Colorado concentration camps imprisonment incarceration Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act of 1948 Koda Farms Mill Farms United States World War II camps
Amache concentration camp Colorado concentration camps imprisonment incarceration Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act of 1948 Koda Farms Mill Farms United States World War II camps
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