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When I was around 19- to 20-years old in 1959-60 during a family get together, I remember my Uncle Hiro telling me that he and …
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“Hey Buddhahead! C’mere! I want to talk to you. Where are you going? You’ve got nowhere to run. I just want to talk! Buddhahead!” I …
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Over the weekend I was working at the Japanese American Bar Association Annual Fundraising Gala. A fantastic organization that supports lawyers and speaks about issues …
One dark night when I was living alone in my twenties, my mother phoned me at one a.m. to tell me to turn on the …
I was saddened to hear of the passing of George “Joe” Sakato, a Denver resident who was a World War II hero, a veteran of …
As the sun peeked out on a slightly overcast summer’s day, a few WWII veterans gathered with a crowd of friends and families on the …
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The stories of the valiant all-Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Infantry Regiment of World War II have been told in art forms ranging …
Read part 1 >> You Nisei volunteered from Hawaii and even the very internment camps in the United States. As you volunteered, your fathers advised …
* Speech presented by curator Eric Saul at the Japanese American National Museum on November 10, 2013 for the Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers …
Jimmy Makino sat in an internment camp in mid-1940s Arizona. Among a room of other Japanese Americans at the Gila River Relocation Center, the Alhambra …
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