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Read Part 2 >> Bill, the earlier period was obviously a hard time for you. Today you are married to your husband, Chris, and have …
Read part 1 >> What were the internal conflicts you struggled with? How did you manage it or how did it impact you from the …
Bill Tashima is a beloved community volunteer in the Seattle Nikkei (Japanese ancestry) and Asian American communities, having been involved with many nonprofits and receiving …
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Read Part 1 >> Can you talk about meeting your husband? Did you meet him in Cleveland? Shizuko Yamauchi (SY): No. He was in the …
“All I saw was cots and there were bales of hay or something, straw, that we were supposed to fill the mattress like, for our …
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Kenny Hirata will tell you the most important thing to becoming a great race car driver is to concentrate, concentrate—on winning. “When that light turns …
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I recently met jazz pianist Kei Akagi quite by chance. My school recently got a distinguished new student, Masao Honma, a Sendai-based classical music composer. …
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Sunday December 7, 1941, started out as a nice day. The sunlight was streaming through the bedroom window; I didn’t want to get up and …
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