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One of my fondest memories is of the annual mochi making party that was held at our house in the week after Christmas and before …
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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 …
“They had soldiers and jeeps with machine guns, you know, patrolling the camps. It was kind of exciting in a way.” -- Digger Sasaki Digger Sasaki …
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Claudia Katayanagi has an extensive list of credits as a sound recordist or sound mixer for documentaries dealing with a variety of topics — Confucius Was …
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When my high school orchestra teacher found out my family owned a Japanese flower garden in Phoenix, Arizona, he made a confession: He had once …
We had been in Camp I of Poston, Arizona, for about five months when the Administration began recruiting labor for farms and canneries in permitted …
Living in the bleak barracks of a WWII concentration camp, the young Judge A. Wallace Tashima could sense “a dark atmosphere [in American society], that …
Read part 3 >> By late December of 1941, the armed services ceased accepting Japanese Americans either as volunteers or draftees, even though the Selective Service …
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I grew up in multi-cultural Hawaii, a 3rd generation Japanese American (Sansei) of two Nisei parents, whose Issei parents had immigrated from Hiroshima (father’s side) …
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