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If there’s one true thing about studying history, it’s that there’s always more to learn. Less (in)famous than sites like Manzanar and Tule Lake, Rohwer …
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“I wish you had shared more about your Japanese-American grandmother’s story.” – Professor Anderson In the fall of my freshman year in college, I took …
Read Part 1 >> And then you as an American, did you experience any backlash? I remember there was an American soldier that was downed, …
"I remember being strafed because I was in the factory. And so I guess they knew which ones to bomb. I remember every time this …
This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a …
Otousan, Obasan, Ojisan, how was the train ride? My father, aunt, uncle, and their family traveled about 2,000 miles by train from the Fresno Assembly …
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Life is a river Shall I fight the current or Let go and float home Papa removed his hat and leaned into the cab window. “Can you …
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George Hosato Takei was born in Los Angeles in 1937 to an Issei father, Takekuma Norman Takei, and Nisei mother, Fumiko Emily Nakamura. He was …
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga is still a ball of fire at 89 years old. She was born in Sacramento, California, a Nisei (second generation Japanese). Her parents, …
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Sus Kaminaka was a zoot suiter: one of the many young people in 1940s America who embraced a distinctive, working-class urban aesthetic characterized by flamboyant …
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