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“We all knew, we are going to go battle. And we expect to win. But we never knew what immediate death was like until we …
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“To spread ‘Ikejime’ not only in the States, but throughout the world is my big dream,” says Shin-Issei Seiichi Yokota. The 43-year-old from Toyama prefecture …
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The Wakamatsu Colony, born of the dreams and labor of the new immigrants, collapsed in only two years. One of the members of the group …
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Read Part 2 >> Kuni Takes a Local as His Wife Following the collapse of the Wakamatsu Colony, a settler by the name of Kuninosuke …
Read Part 1 >> The story of the first Japanese woman to be buried in American soil emerges from history’s shadows. The Wakamatsu Colony had …
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“During the New Year holiday season, Maneki and Nikko Low served Sake and relish free of charge to all who stopped by. They decorated the …
Read Part 1 >> It is because now that so much time has passed I think even. The people I speak with are getting more …
“My mom just about died in camp that first year because it was so damn hot. And I remember I used to have to go …
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History of Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm About 150 years ago in 1869, the first group of approximately 22 immigrants to the U.S. mainland arrived …
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The kind of dedication, determination and commitment that propelled Lenn Sakata into the Big Leagues as a baseball player and then later to become the …
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