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Barbed Wire, Guard Tower, Tar Paper Barracks, Roll Call
The Tule Lake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum is miles from the Tule Lake camp site. It’s a small…

Tamiko Nimura • March 9, 2023

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California concentration camps imprisonment incarceration pilgrimages Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
California concentration camps imprisonment incarceration pilgrimages Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
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Seiichi Higashide — A Man With Three Homelands
In my efforts to learn about Nisei soldier history, I inevitably began to learn more about the inca…

Byrnes Yamashita • March 7, 2023

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Adios to Tears (book) Crystal City internment camp Crystal City (Texas) Department of Justice camps Hawai'i Japanese Latin Americans Panama Peru Redress movement Seiichi Higashide Texas United States World War II camps
Adios to Tears (book) Crystal City internment camp Crystal City (Texas) Department of Justice camps Hawai'i Japanese Latin Americans Panama Peru Redress movement Seiichi Higashide Texas United States World War II camps
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Canadian Nikkei Artist
Toronto Japanese Canadian Duo Releases Groundbreaking EP
“Quiet now, there is not a thing besides the low, humming sound of the bodyIn my mouth, chewing…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 2, 2023

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Annie Sumi Brian Kobayakawa Canada Japanese Canadians Kintsugi (exhibition) music Ontario racially mixed people Toronto
Annie Sumi Brian Kobayakawa Canada Japanese Canadians Kintsugi (exhibition) music Ontario racially mixed people Toronto
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American Dream
For professional opera singer Nina Yoshida Nelsen, the path of life has been full of unexpected twi…

Jackie Kojima • March 1, 2023

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An American Dream (opera) Arizona Asian Opera Alliance concentration camps imprisonment incarceration music Nina Yoshida Nelsen opera Poston concentration camp singing United States violins World War II camps
An American Dream (opera) Arizona Asian Opera Alliance concentration camps imprisonment incarceration music Nina Yoshida Nelsen opera Poston concentration camp singing United States violins World War II camps
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Tessaku
Setsuko Moriya — Part 3
Read Part 2 >> What is that story? He didn't have any papers, so I guess he got on the ship. Bu…

Emiko Tsuchida • Feb. 19, 2023

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Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Sacramento Setsuko Moriya Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
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Ask a Historian: How Did Alaska Natives Wind Up Inside Japanese American Concentration Camps?
Brian Niiya delves into the hidden history of a group of Alaska Natives caught up in the WWII incar…

Brian Niiya • Feb. 13, 2023

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Alaska natives concentration camps World War II camps
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Tessaku
Setsuko Moriya — Part 2
Read Part 1 >> So they're doing chicken farming and so I imagine for them they, they had to give u…

Emiko Tsuchida • Feb. 12, 2023

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Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Sacramento Setsuko Moriya Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Sacramento Setsuko Moriya Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
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The Search for Truth: Piercing Three Layers of Deception
For years I have wanted to write about my family and ancestors to preserve stories of the struggl…

Alden M. Hayashi • Feb. 8, 2023

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Arkansas deportations families Hawai'i Honolulu migration New Mexico Oahu prisons repatriation Sand Island detention facility Sand Island (Hawai'i) Santa Fe United States World War II camps
Arkansas deportations families Hawai'i Honolulu migration New Mexico Oahu prisons repatriation Sand Island detention facility Sand Island (Hawai'i) Santa Fe United States World War II camps
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Tessaku
Setsuko Moriya — Part 1
“When you think about now, politically, we listen to the news of what’s happening in Washington. …

Emiko Tsuchida • Feb. 5, 2023

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Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Sacramento Setsuko Moriya Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Sacramento Setsuko Moriya Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
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Reflections on a Pilgrimage: The Dust of Poston
My mother’s memories of Poston are thick with dust. When I ask my 93-year-old mother about Poston,…

Janis Hirohama • Jan. 24, 2023

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Arizona concentration camps imprisonment incarceration pilgrimages Poston concentration camp United States World War II camps
Arizona concentration camps imprisonment incarceration pilgrimages Poston concentration camp United States World War II camps
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