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For years I have wanted to write about my family and ancestors to preserve stories of the struggles they faced as immigrants to the United …
In 2002-2004, I was honored to serve with two distinguished historical colleagues, the late Roger Daniels and the late Franklin Odo, as a co-consultant for …
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“My family, my parents became pro-America immediately. Their whole psyche was completely turned around.” — Setsuko Asano Setsuko (Izumi) Asano was born on the auspicious …
If there’s one true thing about studying history, it’s that there’s always more to learn. Less (in)famous than sites like Manzanar and Tule Lake, Rohwer …
Read Part 1 >> Do you speak Japanese? Alice Takemoto (AT): Just like a second grader. So when I went there, we were there for …
“I grew up thinking women were stronger than men in terms of the absence of anger and self-pity. Absence of bitterness.” – Paul Takemoto If …
“I think that as a child, I feel that I was protected because my parents and their friends and my grandparents never really spoke about …
Otousan, Obasan, Ojisan, how was the train ride? My father, aunt, uncle, and their family traveled about 2,000 miles by train from the Fresno Assembly …
George Yoshio Hoshida was arrested and detained on February 6, 1942. Information in his file at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, …
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Sus Kaminaka was a zoot suiter: one of the many young people in 1940s America who embraced a distinctive, working-class urban aesthetic characterized by flamboyant …
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