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Prom during the war
(b.1926) Democratic politician and three-term Governor of Hawai'i

Neighbors' sympathy after Pearl Harbor
(1915 - 2011) Nisei florist who resettled in New York City after WW II. Active in Japanese American civil rights movement



Interest in Japanese migration studies (Japanese)
Tsuda College President, researcher of Nikkei history

Japanese Canadians get the right to vote in 1949
(b. 1928) Doctor. Former Chair of the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation.


Life in camp as teenager
(1926 - 2012) Scholar and professor of anthropology. Leader in the establishment of ethnic studies as an academic discipline

Memories of my infancy: Japanese 1, Japanese 2… (Spanish)
(b. 1932-2016) Peruvian painter

Mistreating the Japanese community (Spanish)
(b. 1932-2016) Peruvian painter


Being ordered to keep a diary that was later confiscated, ostensibly by the FBI
Hawaiian Nisei who served in World War II with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Bombing of Pearl Harbor
An expert researcher and scholar on Japanese immigrant clothing.

Helping soldiers
An expert researcher and scholar on Japanese immigrant clothing.

Fun at concentration camp
Senshin Buddhist Temple minister and co-founder of Kinnara Taiko.
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