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Issei are identified with similar characteristics that Nisei would concur: came to this country with no English skills, no money, dreams of success and possibly …
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Life is a river Shall I fight the current or Let go and float home Papa removed his hat and leaned into the cab window. “Can you …
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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 …
A headline first written by Frank Chin in 2010, “Don’t F**k With No-No Boy,” captures the insistence with which audiences should reject the recent stage …
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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 …
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Takashi and Shizuko (nee: Mori) Kato and their two children, Roy Shigehisa and Ikuko, moved from Inglewood to West Los Angeles just prior to evacuation …
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 …
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 …
During and immediately following World War II, Americans of Japanese ancestry flooded Chicago for work and school as they were either released from incarceration at …
We had been in Camp I of Poston, Arizona, for about five months when the Administration began recruiting labor for farms and canneries in permitted …
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