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Dear Japanese American Community, If I don’t already know you, I hope to meet you someday — in the Seattle Chinatown-International District (CID) at a …
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Sometime around 1932, Bachan went to the funeral of a family friend in Suisun with a big plate of homemade sushi and came home with …
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 …
My father was the resident minister of the Seattle Buddhist Church. The construction of the temple on 14th Avenue & Main Street was nearing completion. …
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Over the previous four installments of this series, I have attempted to demonstrate many of the ongoing issues here behind-the-scenes at the Japanese American National …
Read Part 2 >>In all, the documents and letters, even telegrams, showed that there were many pleas for hearings to be held so that he …
Read Part 1 >>In 2003, in response to a request I’d submitted to the National Archives in Washington, DC for documentation relating to my grandfather’s …
These were not letters from a summer camp like the funny one from a young homesick camper as written by songwriter, Allan Sherman, in his …
"Everywhere there is community feeling to be mended, vicious legislation to be defeated, many urgent jobs calling for attention from real friends of the real …
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