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Incarcerated on the West Coast by the U.S. Government, Thousands Were Then Given ‘Work Leave’ to Resettle in the Midwest In March 1943, Kaye Kimura …
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She nevah really thought about ‘em, but artist Kris Goto, 36, she been living in Hawai‘i half her life now. She wuz born in Kagoshima, …
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Although primarily a prolific author of children’s books, mostly fictional, Unforgotten Voices from Heart Mountain by Joanne Oppenheim (with Nancy Matsumoto) is her third non-fictional work …
Read Part 4 >> Reaching a Turning Point During the war, in a statement to Asia and the Americas, Tashiro described his family as follows: Many …
Read Part 3 >> Defending Japan’s Position Regarding his own position as a Japanese American, Tashiro explained, “As a Japanese American standing between two countries, …
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During the early years of the 20th century, Japanese immigrants to the West Coast of Canada, like their counterparts in California, found themselves the object …
The following are holiday-themed excerpts from our book, Unforgotten Voices: An Oral History of the Incarceration, a collection of first-person accounts culled from original interviews, …
Read Part 2 >> Inspiring Young Nisei One of Tashiro’s most important concerns was the future of young Japanese American Nisei and their position in the …
Read Part 1 >> Playing in the ALOHA Baseball Team Concurrent with the establishment of the Hawaiian Student Society of Chicago in May 1922 was …
In the 1910s, a Nikkei visitor from Hawai‘i once wrote a newspaper column expressing his surprise in running into the sons of his Hawai‘i friends …
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