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“I think the main thing is that they had themselves had nothing to do with the problem between the two countries. There’s nothing you can …
Read Part 1 >> The incarceration experience left a deep impression on Hewes. He later recounted that when he read the first reports of mass …
The incarceration of Japanese Americans, in addition to being a product of years of racial hatred against Asian immigrants and economic profiteering by West Coast …
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 …
During the week of October 7, 2019, a shiny white highway bus containing some 43 Japanese Canadians once again travelled the roads and streets between …
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A series of exclusionsNow getting used to itI spend each day farming Honda Fugetsu1 While building their community and industries, Japanese immigrants struggled against exclusionists’ …
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When I was nineteen years old, I moved to Japan for a year to work with no life experience outside of Canada. Japan was a …
The 46th elementary school opening early next year in Chula Vista with a 47.5 million dollar budget will bear Saburo Muraoka’s name. I thought the …
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In this life we are the protagonists of a number of stories, but in many instances the actors remain unknown because their recollections have not …
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