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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Quarantine in Camp: Stories of Other Pandemics

Shortly after leaving Topaz to attend the University of Montana, Missoula, Miyeko Taketa received a letter from her friend Pearl Nugent in February 1944. Nugent, …

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Aya Higashi: Kaslo’s last Nisei daughter

Aya Higashi, the last remaining Kaslo, British Columbia, resident interned there during the Second World War, died last year at 96. Higashi enjoyed a long …

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Q&A with Heidi Kim, editor of Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story

Heidi Kim is a writer, literary scholar, and editor of the new book, Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story. Taken from the …

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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II

George Hishida – A Life in Photography Interrupted by World War II

George Mioya Hishida was born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1896 to a Christian missionary father who was absent from the family for long periods of …

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To Be or Not To Be American: The Truth About Tule Lake Concentration Camp - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Besides resistance to their being imprisoned and refusing army service, were there ever any acts of “disloyalty”/terrorism ever committed by these No-No …

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To Be or Not To Be American: The Truth About Tule Lake Concentration Camp - Part 1

“We (Tule Lake internees) never had a crisis of loyalty…we had a crisis of faith in our government.” —Dr. Satsuki Ina, speaking at a plenary …

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WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 5

Read Part 4 >> While a major controversy between the Nikkei and Jewish communities had been resolved, no such consensus emerged in responses to the …

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WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 4

Read Part 3 >>  Witness to a movement in the making Professor Daniels’ admonition resonated among scholars and Nikkei community activists.  A “Resolution Regarding Terminology” …

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WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 3

Read Part 2 >>  Influenced and inspired by others A powerful statement was submitted to the CWRIC during a public hearing in San Francisco on …

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WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>   Naive housewife evolves as concerned citizen and political activist It was when my daughter Lisa was in high school, during the …