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How Do We Remember Japanese American History? A Descendant's Perspective
The following is adapted from a talk I gave at Plymouth Church in Seattle in February 2024.
Good a…
Tamiko Nimura • April 4, 2024
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The Overlooked Story of the Incarceration of Japanese Americans from Hawaii During World War II
In the months and years following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941…
Olivia Tasevski • Feb. 28, 2024
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What’s the Cost of a Family Secret?
A California Writer on the Aunt He Never Knew He Had—and the Lessons She Taught Him
Is the…
Joe Mathews • Feb. 27, 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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Broken Promise—A Hawaii World War II Incarceration Story
Back in 2018, I walked the somber halls of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washingto…
Dan Nakasone • Feb. 13, 2024
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Masuye Matsuura
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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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A Circus in Tulare: The Story of Congressman Alfred Elliott and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans — Part 2
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The next task on Elliott’s political agenda was to extend the bo…
Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 9, 2024
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A Circus in Tulare: The Story of Congressman Alfred Elliott and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans — Part 1
As part of my ongoing dissertation research on Congress and the wartime incarceration of Japanese A…
Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 8, 2024
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Continental Drift: How anti-Japanese sentiment in Australia affected Nikkei Communities in the US and Canada
During World War II, Japanese communities around the Pacific rim and elsewhere were subjected to di…
Jonathan van Harmelen • Nov. 20, 2023
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Collective Memories of the Store
The Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight calls JANM’s exhibition, Glenn Kaino: Aki…
Helen Yoshida • Oct. 10, 2023
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