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Many of us had never been there before. Those of us who had, had not returned since being incarcerated in 1942. So, when our Nisei …
Tomo, my grandfather My grandfather Tom (Tomo) was a joker, the self-confessed black sheep of the family. He liked to “stir the pot,” and his …
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Yoshinori H.T. Himel, called “Toso” for his middle name by his many friends, would like to see the word “internment” stricken from common usage. He …
When I attended college at UC Riverside closing in on five decades ago, I took a sociology class on Japanese Americans and World War II. …
On Sunday November 3, 2019 the nearly 200 pilgrims who had attended the first official Crystal City pilgrimage, Hidden History–Justice Denied began returning home from …
By the time I was old, more importantly conscious, enough to ask my grandfather questions about his life, he was dead. And he had been …
Congratulations to author and cultural manager Thomas Girst for providing the literary and historical commentary appended to the new German translation of John Okada’s No-No …
Read Part 1 >> While the family was in camp, the Canadian government was doing everything in its power to rid the Japanese Canadians from …
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The Japanese Canadians were among the first non-native settlers of Salt Spring Island. The 1901 census shows 59 islanders of Japanese origin. In 1941, there …
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