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Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey Exhibit at Tanforan Detention Center Site

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 …

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Yoshiko Uchida's Remarkable—and Underappreciated—Literary Career

I have long been a fan of Yoshiko Uchida, a Berkeley-based writer best known for her children’s and young adult books about the World War …

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Behind the Art of Miné Okubo

How appropriate that on the 75th Anniversary of Miné Okubo’s pioneering graphic memoir, Citizen 13660, hailed for its groundbreaking account of the WWII incarceration by …

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Tessaku

Shin Mune — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Did your parents ever have any conversations with you or your siblings about what was happening? Well, see, my mother and …

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Tessaku

Kay Ikuma

One of the hardest things was getting immersed back into society, like taking the bus to school some place where there was a mixture of …

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Enduring Communities

Resisting Incarceration in Concentration Camps

On May 8, 1942, I moved from South Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, to East Palo Alto in San Mateo County to be …