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Yo! This is Who I Am: Kevin Charles Keizuchi of The Shinsei Movement—Part 1
If information is power, then shouldn’t we all strive for all the people in our community to …
Kevin Charles Keizuchi • April 24, 2024
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Tying a Family Together: My Grandmother’s Wedding Obi
Growing up I was always fascinated by the blue trunk in our sunroom. When opened, it reeked of mo…
Caitlin Oiye Coon • April 23, 2024
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Alan Nishio—The Fighter Who Kept Defying the Odds
The first time I realized Alan Nishio’s health was in decline was on November 19, 2022 when I…
Guy Aoki • Feb. 26, 2024
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Why the Language We Use to Describe JA Incarceration During WWII Matters
Out the front windows of our bus, we could see acres of sun-dried grasses during a hot and arid Nor…
Tamiko Nimura • Feb. 23, 2024
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John Azama: The Peruvian Nikkei Who Revitalized Ryukyu Damashii, the Eisa Group of Dallas-Fort Worth
“I was a very shy child,” he confesses, preferring to be at the back of the group durin…
Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato • Feb. 16, 2024
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Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don (event)
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The Unknown Great: Expanding History, Widening the Focus
Until recently, the history of Japanese Americans was documented almost wholly by looking at the WW…
Esther Newman • Feb. 12, 2024
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New Podcast Series Explores the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration— Q&A with the Oral History Center’s Shanna Farrell
When oral historian Shanna Farrell began interviewing descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerate…
Anne Brice • Feb. 9, 2024
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From Generation to Generation (podcast)
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The House I Live In: Frank Sinatra and Japanese Americans
Archival research is often like gambling; either you get boxes of files that either contain golden …
Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 31, 2024
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No. 43 The Footsteps of a Third Generation Japanese American Fighting Through Art — Reading "Nobuko Miyamoto's Autobiography"
Nobuko Miyamoto, a third-generation Japanese-American, has had what is commonly called a "life…
Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 26, 2024
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Kanon Shambora on the Making of Print Garden
Artist-in-residence Kanon Shambora used her time at Densho to explore the roots of Japanese America…
Kanon Shambora • Jan. 25, 2024
