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Read Part 2 >> Dear Grandpa, On the last leg of our trip in Italy, we went to the capital of the Tuscany region. Firenze–Florence …
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I awoke this morning to memories of the cowboy lament, “Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.” Perhaps the memories had been triggered when I …
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Nikkei Hall sold, proceeds used for community grants. The Santa Monica Nikkei Hall, once the hub of Santa Monica’s Japanese American community, has been sold …
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Read Part 1 >> Evidence of Michitaro’s residence in the Midwest can be found in the Naniwa church, a congregational church in Osaka, Japan. Archived …
There’s only one obvious sign today that Slocan, British Columbia was an internment camp for Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. At the back …
Shake & Bake—that is how we characterize the Imperial Valley. The temperature was almost 110 degrees on the afternoon of August 26, 2012, when a …
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How well do you know your own family? Specifically, your extended family: uncles, aunts, cousins, second cousins, great aunts, etc. Maybe it is because I …
We love to travel and like most travelers, have a bucket list of places we want to visit before we die. At the top of …
Read part 5 >> But there is still more to the Masuda family story. In 1948 when Kazuo’s remains had been disinterred from his grave in Italy …
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シカゴに日本人墓地ができたのは、1935年1月に設立された日本人共済会の努力のたまものである。もともと共済会は、会員百数十名から50セントの会費を集…
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