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In 1949, when I was 10 years old, my family moved from New Jersey to Goleta, Calif., where I enrolled as a sixth grader in …
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On April 16, 2020, in the middle of statewide stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19, the California Judicial Council approved the re-naming of the West Justice …
Trevor Allred is a founding part of Heritage Future, a nonprofit organization dedicated to storytelling as a tool for community betterment, and a moderator on …
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The day everyone had been both waiting for and dreading was finally here. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 60 and No. 61 were published on May …
The spring of 1935 was a time of slow financial recovery and international unrest. Adolph Hitler had seized power in Germany in 1933. Japan and Germany left …
She bought Japanese food from (Tashima market)…there was a meat market owned by a hakujin, MacIntosh Meats. So, she bought meat from them. Those were …
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Now, that I’m in my 50’s I can say that I’ve gone through many name changes. Growing up in Orange County I went by Diana Keiko …
Read Part 1 >>The dawn of a new year, unrest and change A tremendous social shift was occurring as the world marched toward globalization. In …
A century ago, the New Year in 1914 brought both promise and uncertainty for Japanese pioneers in California. It was a time of global social …
Read Part 1 >> Wintersburg Village By 1902, seventeen years after the first Japanese Presbyterian Mission was established in northern California, the Presbyterian and Methodist …
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