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An Open Letter In Support of the Tule Lake Resisters, 2019

In July-August 2019, the National Convention of JACL (Japanese American Citizens League) will be meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Up for consideration is Resolution …

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Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum

Masako Iwawaki Murakami

Masako Iwawaki Murakami’s parents seldom talked about the years the family spent in an American concentration camp during WWII. Masako was 8 years old at …

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Silk Cocoon Shatters the Myth of the “Model Minority”

It was not until her mother died that Satsuki Ina came to understand the historic event that deeply affected her family—a part of World War …

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Review of Prisoners and Patriots

A recent film on Santa Fe, Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe, according to the film’s writer/director/producer Neil H. …

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Thoughts on the 2009 Tule Lake Pilgrimage

“How was the pilgrimage?”It’s a question I and other pilgrims have been asked many times since returning from the 2009 Tule Lake Pilgrimage that took …

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Enduring Communities

Resisting Incarceration in Concentration Camps

On May 8, 1942, I moved from South Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, to East Palo Alto in San Mateo County to be …