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On August 2, 1949, legendary Nisei composer and musician Takeshi “Tak” Shindo penned an article for the Rafu Shimpo profiling the rise of a new …
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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi has been volunteering at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) with her husband, Hal, before the Museum opened to the public in …
Read Part 1 >> After you were in training, you were aware that it was leading up to the occupation of Japan? Yes, we expected …
"After they gave us the redress, it just really relieved all of us who had been in the camp. Because camp was sort of a …
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“Sundays became exciting during the summer. Baseball was not only fun, but it was a way of bonding with the other Nisei,” remembered Jerry Inouye, …
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In anticipation of upcoming Day of Remembrance (DOR) events in 2010, I looked over the DOR Calendar Listing published in the Feb. 5-18, 2010 Japanese …
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