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In Memoriam: A Tribute to Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi was an innovator in the field of Asian American Studies, a historian and story…

Brian Niiya • Aug. 27, 2020

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Power of Our Stories

Japanese Incarceration: Making a Difference One Person at a Time

My name is Marissa, and I'm a Girl Scout from South San Jose, California. I love the smell of coffe…

Marissa Shoji • Aug. 12, 2020

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Freedom Springs From the Mountains of Utah: An Environmental History of Camp Antelope Springs and the Agency of Japanese American Incarcerees

A troop of Boy Scouts spills out of a packed truck, glad that the long ride through miles of dusty …

Sean Silvia • Aug. 9, 2020

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Memories on the Open Market

For scholars of Japanese American history, telling the story of incarceration is important yet diff…

Jonathan van Harmelen • June 2, 2020

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It Was My First Grown-Up Feeling of Responsibility: Student Views of Life in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

We’re fortunate today to have access to hundreds of testimonies from Nisei elders who were in…

Nina Nobuko Wallace • May 14, 2020

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

EO9066 vs. COVID-19

I’ve been struggling with what more to say about the pandemic now known as the worst disaster…

Sharon Yamato • April 30, 2020

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Healing the Intergenerational Trauma of WWII Incarceration through Art

As one of Densho’s 2019 artists-in-residence, Mari Shibuya recently completed a mural that vi…

Mari Shibuya • Feb. 25, 2020

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Book Review: The Rise & Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law

Japanese American Nisei, born in the incarceration camps have launched the Tsuru (origami cranes)…

Maryka Omatsu • Feb. 14, 2020

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"We will never forget your kindness": 70 years after Governor Carr's death, people who stood up for Japanese Americans - Part 4

Read Part 3 >> Mary McCumber: The Neighbor Who Saved Her Home Lester Ouchida, a third-generat…

Junko Yoshida • Feb. 10, 2020

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"We will never forget your kindness": 70 years after Governor Carr's death, people who stood up for Japanese Americans - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Japanese residents who were helped and heartfelt exchanges Due to the wartime …

Junko Yoshida • Feb. 3, 2020

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