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Tessaku
Robert Tanaka - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Bob, can I go back? Do you remember your experience going from Watsonville to…

Emiko Tsuchida • June 29, 2017

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California concentration camps generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Nisei Topaz concentration camp Tule Lake concentration camp United States Utah World War II camps
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Tessaku
Robert Tanaka - Part 1
When I got married and had a family, that’s when it sort of hit me, what my parents went th…

Emiko Tsuchida • June 28, 2017

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California concentration camps generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Nisei Topaz concentration camp Tule Lake concentration camp United States Utah World War II camps
California concentration camps generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Nisei Topaz concentration camp Tule Lake concentration camp United States Utah World War II camps
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Nisei: When The Nisei-nts Go Marching In ...
When the saints go marching in, oh when the saints go marching in…. oh when the Nisei-nts go…

Chuck Tasaka • May 26, 2017

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British Columbia Canada Catholicism Christianity Goro Kaburagi Greenwood (B.C.) missionaries Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) religion Sacred Heart Church schools Steveston streets Vancouver (B.C.) Victoria (B.C.)
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Masao Tom Inada - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Okay, I see. So then you landed in the Philippines. Yeah. When we were in …

Emiko Tsuchida • May 25, 2017

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California concentration camps Sacramento Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
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Masao Tom Inada - Part 1
That’s the reason I’ve always just got to think to myself, I don’t know what it…

Emiko Tsuchida • May 24, 2017

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armed forces California concentration camps retired military personnel Sacramento Tule Lake concentration camp United States veterans World War II camps
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Her Grandfather Was Sent to an Internment Camp—And Never Returned
This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to …

Nancy Kaffer • April 27, 2017

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anti-miscegenation laws Arkansas concentration camps families family histories genealogy hapa journalism journalists racially mixed people Raymond Boone Regina Boone Rohwer concentration camp Suffolk (Va.) Tsujiro Miyazaki United States Virginia World War II camps
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Into the Next Stage: MIS Stories Spotlighted in Bill Kubota's Next Documentary
If you remember PBS’ 2007 Most Honorable Son—a documentary about Nebraska Nisei farmboy…

George Toshio Johnston • April 18, 2017

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armed forces Bill Kubota Camp Savage documentaries filmmakers films Fort Snelling Grant Ichikawa John Okada Military Intelligence Service Language School Minnesota retired military personnel Roy Matsumoto Steve Ozone The Registry (film) United States United States Army veterans
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Kamishibai: Paper theater does not stop
Japan is full of so many art forms that there are some little known outside their country, even in…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Dec. 28, 2016

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arts kamishibai Pepe Cabana Kojachi Peru street theater
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Happy Holidays in the Imperial Valley
Ask any Nisei from the south end of the Imperial Valley about their childhood Christmas experiences…

Tim Asamen • Dec. 23, 2016

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Calexico California Christmas clergy El Centro festivals food generations holidays immigrants immigration Imperial Valley Issei Japan Jingoro Kokubun Kamiya Company migration missionaries mochi mochitsuki New Year Nisei Oshogatsu prewar Religious leaders Southern California United States
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Michitaro Ongawa: The First Japanese American Chicagoan - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Evidence of Michitaro’s residence in the Midwest can be found in the Na…

Takako Day • Dec. 8, 2016

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cemeteries Chicago dance generations Illinois immigrants immigration intermarriage interracial marriages Issei Japan Japanese dance marriages Michitaro Ongawa Midwest Region (U.S.) migration missionaries performances Umanoshin Sawayama United States
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