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I have long been a fan of Yoshiko Uchida, a Berkeley-based writer best known for her children’s and young adult books about the World War …
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A whimsical drawing by Miné Okubo portrays a family and dog adrift in a hot air balloon over downtown Los Angeles, the distinctive city hall building …
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On July 5, 2021, I flew down early in the morning from San Jose for a flag signing event at the Gardena Valley JCI1 in …
How appropriate that on the 75th Anniversary of Miné Okubo’s pioneering graphic memoir, Citizen 13660, hailed for its groundbreaking account of the WWII incarceration by …
Was I looking at a pile of charred kindling, a set of raven’s wings or feathers? “I’m interviewing this 99-year old Kibei Nisei artist, Koho …
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Read Part 1 >> Did your parents ever have any conversations with you or your siblings about what was happening? Well, see, my mother and …
“Finally, the day we received news of President Reagan signing the apology letter they had a function at the Issei Memorial building. And Papa was …
In May 1962, Utah State University professor Leonard Arrington delivered a remarkable lecture on Japanese American confinement to his peers in Logan, Utah. It was …
A troop of Boy Scouts spills out of a packed truck, glad that the long ride through miles of dusty desert is over.1 It was …
A woman arrives at New York City after a long trip from Detroit. She writes to a distant friend about her long travels from home …
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