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Japanese American Family History in Seattle
Learning about Japanese immigration history for the first time: The Ideguchi family
In September 2017, I came to Seattle for a one-year exchange program. Having been born in Tokyo and…

Minami Hasegawa • May 28, 2018

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family histories genealogy generations hapa Hawaii immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar racially mixed people Shin-Issei United States World War II Yonsei
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Beyond the Panama Hotel: More Sites Related to Japanese American History in Washington State
In the Pacific Northwest, there are a couple of famous sites related to Japanese American history, …

Tamiko Nimura • April 11, 2018

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armed forces Auburn buildings churches Discover Nikkei historic sites history Japanese Americans Lewis County Historical Museum museums Pacific Northwest Puyallup temporary detention center religious architecture religious institutions retired military personnel Seattle Spokane temples temporary detention centers United States Vashon Island veterans Washington World War II World War II camps Yakima
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Objects Waiting to Speak: Starting to Tell the Japanese American History of Fife, Washington
The Fife History Museum is a converted midcentury home, awaiting its next stage of storytellin…

Tamiko Nimura • March 20, 2018

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Fife History Museum and Cultural Center imprisonment incarceration United States Washington World War II camps
Fife History Museum and Cultural Center imprisonment incarceration United States Washington World War II camps
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Roots: Shared Stories of Mexican Nikkei
“It is never too late to investigate the roots. Not to live from the longing for the past, but to u…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Nov. 3, 2017

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Dahil Melgar documentaries families films history identity Mexico Raíces (film)
Dahil Melgar documentaries families films history identity Mexico Raíces (film)
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We Should Listen
I had the extraordinary experience of getting to know a Nisei solider before he died in 2013. His…

Sandra Vea • Sept. 26, 2017

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armed forces generations Japan life interviews Nisei oral histories retired military personnel veterans World War II
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Shozo Ogino: the chronicler of the 500 years of contacts between Mexico and Japan
The book Umi wo koete gohyakunen (500 years across the sea) written by Shozo Ogino is one of the mo…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • Aug. 2, 2017

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book reviews history Mexico migration reviews Shozo Ogino
book reviews history Mexico migration reviews Shozo Ogino
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My Family Secret
My grandmother Kazuko Kuwabara passed away recently, and I can’t help but feel that a piece o…

Karen Yoshiko Matsuoka • July 28, 2017

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civil rights draft resisters imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans life interviews oral histories resisters United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara World War II
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Finding Asian American Family Histories: Genealogist Marisa Louie Lee
“I will never forget seeing my great-grandfather’s photograph in his immigration case f…

Darryl Mori • July 17, 2017

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Asian Americans family histories genealogy immigration Marisa Louie Lee
Asian Americans family histories genealogy immigration Marisa Louie Lee
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Historian ‘illuminates’ JA history
In Kenji Taguma’s resplendent foreword to this latest of historian Greg Robinson’s ca…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • June 7, 2017

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book reviews Greg Robinson history Japanese Americans reviews The Great Unknown (book)
book reviews Greg Robinson history Japanese Americans reviews The Great Unknown (book)
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Her Grandfather Was Sent to an Internment Camp—And Never Returned
This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to …

Nancy Kaffer • April 27, 2017

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anti-miscegenation laws Arkansas concentration camps families family histories genealogy hapa journalism journalists racially mixed people Raymond Boone Regina Boone Rohwer concentration camp Suffolk (Va.) Tsujiro Miyazaki United States Virginia World War II camps
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