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Grandmother's influence on decision to go to Japan
(b.1942) Japanese American ceramist, who has lived in Japan for over 30 years.

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

Grandmother convinced his mother to return to Canada
(b. 1928) Doctor. Former Chair of the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation.




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

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



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.

Studying in Japan before working in the US
(1940-2016) Issei Landscape Architect
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