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This story is about my Auntie Yochi based on family knowledge, my memories of her, several writings about her in letters and passages in books. …
In June 2019, Discover Nikkei published an article of mine on the Nikkei community in the Netherlands and on popular reactions there to the Redress …
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“The faces from the photographs staring up at me as I searched for my family in the National Archives have always haunted me,” Paul Kitagaki …
It was more than ten years ago that my friend Tetsuden Kashima told me of his dream project. Tetsu, a professor of Sociology at University …
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Art (Isamu) Shibayama, civil rights champion of the Japanese Latin Americans and the recipient of the 2002 Fighting Spirit Award, died peacefully with family by …
I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee …
In recognition of my modest role in the conception and organization of this stellar volume, I received a complimentary copy from Lane Hirabayashi, the lead …
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Read Part 1 >> My post about this discovery was seen by my Facebook friend June Aochi Berk, who is one of the leaders of …
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he was open to the idea of Muslims in the United States registering in a database, and …
Holly Yasui is the youngest daughter of Minoru Yasui, the legendary Japanese American lawyer and civil rights activist. She is currently at work on a …
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