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Little interaction with parents
(1926 - 2012) Scholar and professor of anthropology. Leader in the establishment of ethnic studies as an academic discipline

Lack of language skills
(b.1964) California-born business woman in Japan. A successor of her late grandmother, who started a beauty business in Japan.

Acculturation
(b.1964) California-born business woman in Japan. A successor of her late grandmother, who started a beauty business in Japan.

Japanese are more accustomed to foreigners
(b.1964) California-born business woman in Japan. A successor of her late grandmother, who started a beauty business in Japan.

Difficulties understanding different Japanese dialects
(b.1913) Kibei from California who served in the MIS with Merrill’s Marauders during WWII.

Teaching at the military language school during World War II
(b. 1924) Political scientist, educator, and administrator from Hawai`i

Learning English upon discovering that family could not return to Peru
(1930-2018) Nisei born in Peru. Taken to the United States during WWII.

Playing baseball along with American Nisei and Kibei
(1930-2018) Nisei born in Peru. Taken to the United States during WWII.

Her early life in Canada
(b.1912) Japanese Canadian Issei. Immigrated with husband to Canada in 1931

Japanese school
(b.1924) Japanese Canadian Nisei. Interpreter for British Army in Japan after WWII. Active in Japanese Canadian community

Learning Japanese at school and at home with family
(b.1951) Co-founder and managing director of San Jose Taiko.

Results of being more American than Japanese
(1924-2018) Researcher, Activist

Going to Japanese school
(1923-2011) Lawyer, MIS veteran, founder of Francis and Sarah Sogi Foundation

Volunteering to serve for the U.S. military in Japan
(1923-2011) Lawyer, MIS veteran, founder of Francis and Sarah Sogi Foundation

Feeling closer to Japan as a Japanese American
(1923-2011) Lawyer, MIS veteran, founder of Francis and Sarah Sogi Foundation
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