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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II

Wakijiro Yuki's Detention Because of Kendo

Wakijiro Yahiro was born on April 8, 1885, in Kamisaigo-mura, a little fishing and farming village in Fukuoka prefecture, on the northern coast of Kyushu, …

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

Kihachiro Tajima

Kimio Tajima was an American-born Nisei, but he died a Japanese soldier, while at war in New Guinea. He was 28 years old. His son, …

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Imamura Church

Edson Aoki, a Japanese Brazilian, whom I just got to know, visited Tachiarai1, Fukuoka recently. Tachiarai, easily reachable by train from Kurume (20 km further …

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My Trip to the Orient - Part 7

Editor’s Note: This series of articles is taken from a diary kept by Nikkei Canadian Alyssa Erin Woo, then ten years old, during her trip …

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The year of a Brazilian across the world

Chapter 10: Memories of my exchange program in Fukuoka

At home, in Brazil, we always talked in Portuguese. During my adolescence, I attended Japanese classes because my parents wanted that, but honestly I did …