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Introduction Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the FBI began a nationwide campaign to detain “enemy aliens,” conducting home searches and …
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Read Part 1 >> Evidence of Michitaro’s residence in the Midwest can be found in the Naniwa church, a congregational church in Osaka, Japan. Archived …
On July 8, 1867, the Chicago Tribune reported a love story between a Chicago girl and a Japanese acrobat. Traveling acrobats were most likely the …
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Read Part 2 >> When my husband and I were first married, we lived in a building on the 4300 block of North Kenmore owned …
Read Part 1 >> Dad was a Kibei, born in Hawaii, came to the States to teach Japanese. He was put into Tule Lake War …
Fred Yamaguchi: That was like Japantown. 43rd and Ellis.Karen Kanemoto: But now, I don’t think there are any Japanese Americans down there.Yamaguchi: I don’t think …
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Dr. Joe Takehara, D.D.S., a second generation Japanese American, has trained with the legends of aikido during his fifty-three years of studying the Japanese martial …
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I was born August 19th, 1961 at the University of Chicago Lying-in Hospital, on the south side of Chicago. My father, Joseph Earl Wiley, hails …
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Like returning home after a long journey, stepping onto the tatami at the dojo is one of the most relaxing moments I look forward to …
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イリノイ州はIllinoisと表記するが、これをそのままローマ字的に読んだのか、「百年史」では、第十八章「イリノイス州」と表記している。英語をカタカ…
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