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Grace Izuhara

“I remember my father saying how angry he was and that he would never again vote. And he never did." —Grace Izuhara Grace Izuhara’s family …

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Maru Hiratzka - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> How did they (Hiratzka family) come back to California?  Well, I was in Texas and Jordan went to Ogden. I went …

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Maru Hiratzka - Part 1

I know even in camp when it was declared Japan lost the war, some of these men were very adamant about Japan, they just couldn’t …

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Howard Yamamoto - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Do you remember if there was any convincing that Mr. Wada needed to do with your family?  No, that I have …

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Howard Yamamoto - Part 1

“It was hard, it was hard on the parents. Was it hard on me? I don’t know, I don’t remember that much, the hardship. But …

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Film Focuses On Little-Known WWII Camps: Story of Moab, Leupp told in Claudia Katayanagi’s A Bitter Legacy

Claudia Katayanagi has an extensive list of credits as a sound recordist or sound mixer for documentaries dealing with a variety of topics — Confucius Was …

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Civil Rights Advocate Recounts The Japanese American Story

S. Floyd Mori is the former National Executive Director/CEO of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), current president of the Asian Pacific American Institute for …

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Nanka Nikkei Voices

Outside 

We had been in Camp I of Poston, Arizona, for about five months when the Administration began recruiting labor for farms and canneries in permitted …

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Poems from Topaz

In an intergenerational reading held at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 15, 2014, Sansei poet and editor, Brian Komei Dempster, read these …

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Voluntary Evacuation

“Attempted but failed” was my understanding of the voluntary evacuation efforts by the Japanese Americans when Japan declared war against the Allied Forces in attacking …