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The Legacy of Isamu Tashiro: Nisei from Hawaii in Chicago

Chapter 1—From Hawai‘i to the Midwest

In the 1910s, a Nikkei visitor from Hawai‘i once wrote a newspaper column expressing his su…

Takako Day • Dec. 10, 2023

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A Surprise in the Midwest

Missouri is not a state you think of when looking for culture and diversity. We are part of “…

Linda Austin • May 11, 2022

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Clark & Division: Japanese Americans on Chicago’s Near North Side, 1940s-1960s - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> David Toguri I was born in Chicago in 1947 at Cuneo Hospital. Dr. Junji Hase…

Erik Matsunaga • Jan. 27, 2020

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Clark & Division: Japanese Americans on Chicago’s Near North Side, 1940s-1960s - Part 1

Chicago’s Near North Side. In the early to mid-twentieth century it was a playground for the …

Erik Matsunaga • Jan. 20, 2020

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JASC Partners With Alphawood Gallery on “Then They Came For Me;” Largest JA Incarceration Exhibit Ever in Midwest

On June 29th, 2017, the Alphawood Gallery, in partnership with the Japanese American Service Commit…

Ryan Masaaki Yokota • Feb. 1, 2018

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A historical survey of Asian Americans in the Heartland

In 2009, I published an article about Japanese Americans in the Interior West, a field earlier pi…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Nov. 22, 2017

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Michitaro Ongawa: The First Japanese American Chicagoan - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Evidence of Michitaro’s residence in the Midwest can be found in the Na…

Takako Day • Dec. 8, 2016

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Japanese Americans on Chicago’s South Side - Oakland/Kenwood 1940s-1950s - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> When my husband and I were first married, we lived in a building on the 430…

Erik Matsunaga • Dec. 3, 2015

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Japanese Americans on Chicago’s South Side - Oakland/Kenwood 1940s-1950s - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Dad was a Kibei, born in Hawaii, came to the States to teach Japanese. He was…

Erik Matsunaga • Dec. 2, 2015

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Japanese Americans on Chicago’s South Side - Oakland/Kenwood 1940s-1950s - Part 1

Fred Yamaguchi: That was like Japantown. 43rd and Ellis.Karen Kanemoto: But now, I don’t th…

Erik Matsunaga • Dec. 1, 2015

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