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For most of its history, the leadership of the JACL has been composed largely of men. Figures such as Mike Masaoka, Saburo Kido, and Clifford …
Mitch Homma, a 3rd generation Japanese American, grew up and still lives in Southern California. He has long been interested in Japanese and Japanese American …
Kay Fukumoto of Maui Taiko is the embodiment of a treasured legacy that continues to resonate today, despite the ravages of a global pandemic and …
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Read Part 2 >> Many treating the wounded in the first few weeks after the blast had not experienced early signs of radiation poisoning, so they …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Loopy-Ass Beliefs—Unusual notions that (some) people cling to...” Check back …
In 1912 Los Angeles, Leo Kumataro Hatakeyama, a Catholic veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, wrote to his bishop in Japan that he wanted to confess …
In 2018, five Sansei women artists traveled to Manzanar’s annual pilgrimage in order to honor their family histories of wartime incarceration. Each of them had …
Before World War II, there were sixteen Japanese families (including children, about 100 individuals) living in the resort town of Coronado on a peninsula in …
Surrounded and stranded for two days in a forbidden Laotian South Vietnamese firebase, the country’s newest Medal of Honor recipient—Kaua‘i-born Spec. 5 Dennis M. Fujii—described …
Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, was assassinated on July 8, 2022. Almost immediately after the news broke, hundreds of global news outlets …
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