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Exile and Back: The Story of the Hirai Family
Chapter 5—Struggle to Adjust
Read Chapter 4 >> In stark contrast to Shig, who had previously lived in Canada till ag…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 18, 2024

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barbering British Columbia Canada exiles families family histories genealogy generations Japanese Canadians Kika Nisei schools Vancouver (B.C.)
barbering British Columbia Canada exiles families family histories genealogy generations Japanese Canadians Kika Nisei schools Vancouver (B.C.)
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Exile and Back: The Story of the Hirai Family
Chapter 3—Childhood Experiences in Taga, Japan
Read Chapter 2 >> Miki had no problem adjusting to Japan due to being only two-years-old w…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 4, 2024

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education elementary schools families generations Hirai family Japan Japanese Canadians Kika Nisei Miki Hirai Nisei postwar postwar Japan schools Shiga Prefecture Shigeru Hirai students Taga (Shiga, Japan) World War II
education elementary schools families generations Hirai family Japan Japanese Canadians Kika Nisei Miki Hirai Nisei postwar postwar Japan schools Shiga Prefecture Shigeru Hirai students Taga (Shiga, Japan) World War II
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Jishuryo: Santa Beatriz School those times of our childhood — Part 2
Read part 1 >> At Jishuryo School, the afternoon classes were not as hard as the morning clas…

Graciela Nakachi Morimoto • Jan. 31, 2024

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Lima Peru Santa Beatriz Jishuryo School schools
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Dr. Jiro Takai's Journey of Becoming From the Soo to Nagoya University — Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Jiro’s Parents Remembering his father who has since passed on, Ji…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Sept. 24, 2023

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Canada Chinese Chink (slur) elementary schools Jiro Takai Northern Ontario Ontario Parkland Public School racial slurs racism schools slurs
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Ginyu Igei: the teacher, the lighthouse
Ginyu Igei arrived in Peru with the halo of sensei. A teacher in his native Okinawa, the 26-year-o…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 18, 2023

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agriculture education farmers generations Ginyu Igei Hawaii immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese language schools language schools Lima migration Nanko Gakuen Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture Peru schools teachers teaching Uchinanchu United States
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Japanese Women in Chicago
Part 1: Yone Hara
Even though their population was very small, the Japanese in pre-war Chicago were still a…

Takako Day • March 26, 2023

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America McCutchen Drennan Chicago Christianity Christians generations Illinois immigrants immigration Issei Japan Katsuji Kato migration Misaki Shimazu Osaka schools United States Wilmina School for Girls Yone Hara Yone Shimazu
America McCutchen Drennan Chicago Christianity Christians generations Illinois immigrants immigration Issei Japan Katsuji Kato migration Misaki Shimazu Osaka schools United States Wilmina School for Girls Yone Hara Yone Shimazu
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The First Japanese American Battery Included a Future Hollywood Actor and a Philanthropist
Bigotry towards Japanese immigrants in San Francisco climaxed on October 11, 1906 when the city&rsq…

Robert K. Fitts • April 23, 2021

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baseball California high schools Japanese Americans newspapers San Francisco schools sports United States
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Sacred Heart School Yearbook Memoirs - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> 1945-46 Yearbook A message from Mayor W.E. McArthur Sr.: Most of you are …

Chuck Tasaka • April 2, 2021

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British Columbia Canada education Franciscan Sisters of Atonement (organization) Greenwood (B.C.) Japanese Canadians Sacred Heart Church schools World War II World War II camps yearbooks
British Columbia Canada education Franciscan Sisters of Atonement (organization) Greenwood (B.C.) Japanese Canadians Sacred Heart Church schools World War II World War II camps yearbooks
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Sacred Heart School Yearbook Memoirs - Part 1
In my previous article, I wrote that Greenwood became the first ‘internment camp’ in Br…

Chuck Tasaka • April 1, 2021

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British Columbia Canada education Franciscan Sisters of Atonement (organization) Greenwood (B.C.) Japanese Canadians Sacred Heart Church schools World War II World War II camps yearbooks
British Columbia Canada education Franciscan Sisters of Atonement (organization) Greenwood (B.C.) Japanese Canadians Sacred Heart Church schools World War II World War II camps yearbooks
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Nikkei Chronicles #9—More Than a Game: Nikkei Sports
Sports and Schools
My name is Taira Fernanda Yumi. I am 14 years old. Nice to meet you. I have loved swimming since I…

Fernanda Yumi Taira • Nov. 6, 2020

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Brazil pandemics schools sports swimming
Brazil pandemics schools sports swimming
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