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Read Part 1 >> Sally’s earliest memories are of playing with Bernice and Beatrice Wong in back of the grocery store their parents owned. But the …
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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 …
For this final column of 2017, I chose to focus on the broad possibilities this month provides—it lends itself to the December 7 reflection that …
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We have spent two-thirds of our lives in the United States and we feel we are more American than Japanese; we are willing to do …
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 …
Read Part 1 >> [To Fusae] Do you remember a conversation that your parents had with you over moving to the camps? They went with …
“When he came back to Tule Lake where we were, he got off the bus, and he was an old man. To this day I …
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NEW YORK—The Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) issued the following statement on March 27, 2016. * * * * * AAAYA mourns the …
How do we keep Hawai‘i’s World War II story alive so that its lessons continue to resonate for generations to come? It’s a tough question …
Suki Setsuko Terada Ports is an outspoken woman with an infectious laugh and a straightforward manner. She is well known in New York as a …
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