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This is the second of two outstanding books by eminent historian and journalist Greg Robinson consisting primarily of his “The Great Unknown and the Unknown …
Read Part 1 >> Following their wedding, James and Mari Michener went on an extended honeymoon in Hawaii and Australia. In the period that followed, …
One arena of public life in which Japanese Americans have achieved great visibility during the 20th century is the arts. A constellation of brilliant Nisei …
Read Part 1 >> After law school, Yamamoto began working for legal aid and eventually worked as a public defender for the Los Angeles Public …
“What we do for money will support us, what we do for free will define us." – Mia Yamamoto Mia Yamamoto is a Japanese American, …
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Read Part 1 >> Eugene Rostow’s twin articles appeared in late summer 1945. The overall thesis of both pieces was that the indefinite “internment” of …
In the annals of civil rights, a special place should be reserved for Eugene Rostow. In 1945, even as Japanese Americans remained confined in camps …
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This story is about my Auntie Yochi based on family knowledge, my memories of her, several writings about her in letters and passages in books. …
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“The faces from the photographs staring up at me as I searched for my family in the National Archives have always haunted me,” Paul Kitagaki …
It was more than ten years ago that my friend Tetsuden Kashima told me of his dream project. Tetsu, a professor of Sociology at University …
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