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Read Part 1 >> Your father passed away in 2011 and left a huge legacy. Tell us about him. My father, Douglas Luna, grew up …
Mercedes Luna has come full circle, returning to work for the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, which she visited as a child …
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The first book I read about Japanese American history was Roger Daniels’ book, “The Politics of Prejudice.” It was 1966, and in my research as …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Cartoon Lies!! How Saturday Morning Cartoons Deceived Me...” Check back …
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Sometimes it takes a soft-spoken woman like Kyoko Oda to use her charm to make sure the lives of 125,284 incarcerated Japanese American are not …
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Read Part 1 >> At the time of his passing, Franklin was working with Honolulu attorney William “Bill” Kaneko, his former Ethnic Studies student, and …
“If you don’t control your own culture and your own vision of life, and your own participation in life, then you don’t control anything. And …
My mother’s memories of Poston are thick with dust. When I ask my 93-year-old mother about Poston, she starts with the dust storms. She tells …
In October 2022, during a trip to Berkeley, California to do research at the Bancroft Library, I stopped in at Eastwind Books. Normally, when I …
In 2002-2004, I was honored to serve with two distinguished historical colleagues, the late Roger Daniels and the late Franklin Odo, as a co-consultant for …
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