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Author Gyo Fujikawa‘s books have been read, shared and loved by generations of families all over the world for over 50 years. Fujikawa began with …
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Travel uproots daily routines for new places and new discoveries. But, somehow, my own discoveries in my own travels have often given me deeper roots—especially …
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Inside her home in Southern California, Mary Izumi sits at her piano flipping through the yellowed pages of her old songbooks. Along with her high …
As an oral historian, I have always been addicted to reading obituaries, especially those relating to the World War II Japanese American experience. For example, …
Read part 1 >>REVISITING THE PASTIt took a visit to a cemetery in his father’s hometown in Hawaii—where he learned that his middle name commemorated …
When asked about their memories of Terminal Island, many Japanese Americans who spent their childhood there think “furusato,” home sweet home. In the early 1900s, …
Naotaro Ito was born in 1886 as a second son to a rice farming family in Kitsuneji, a tiny rural hamlet in Aiichi Prefecture, near …
My name is Frank Endo, age 81, and I reside in Gardena, California. I was born in Wilmington, California, on April 20, 1923. I had …
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>> Part 1Together, Hanhichi and Taeno raised six children, the Nisei generation (second generation). They were: Masa (born October 26, 1912), James Hajime (born July …
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