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The National JACL Convention held in 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Little America Hotel — where this year’s National JACL Convention was …
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The trials and tribulations of pre–World War II Japanese on the West Coast are well documented, but there was a small group of them that …
Shinya Honda was my hero because he never looked back. He always persevered and took responsibility for his own life and even took care of …
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One pillar of American education is the network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Founded to give free blacks access to higher education in …
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I will forever admire my father’s strength and bravery. Despite the incredible challenges he endured during World War II as a young internee in America’s …
Tule Lake Committee chair Hiroshi Shimizu attended his first Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 1994, clutching a folder of papers written in Japanese. He had seen …
My hero Is my late father-in-law Yoneto James Nakata. He was the father of my wife, Mary Nakata. She asked me to research her father’s …
Being of only Japanese ancestry and growing up in the South Bay (Torrance) I have never questioned whether or not I belonged to the Japanese …
“50 Objects/50 Stories of the American Japanese Incarceration” is a project made up of 50 objects that each give a raw, true narrative of the …
For many of the issei interned by the Justice Department during World War II, their years in confinement posed serious questions of loyalty and identity. …
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