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Robert M. Horsting • Dec. 21, 2022

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Lilly Krohn: Out of Suffering Have Emerged the Strongest Souls

Part 5—Return to Japan and Final Days

Read Part 4 >> Lilly, upon thinking back, believed she lost at the very least 20 relatives…

Jon Stroud • Aug. 21, 2022

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Lilly Krohn: Out of Suffering Have Emerged the Strongest Souls

Part 4—U.S. Citizenship, Family, and Brink of Death

Read Part 3 >> Becoming a U.S. citizen is a reality many Americans take on without appreci…

Jon Stroud • Aug. 14, 2022

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Lilly Krohn: Out of Suffering Have Emerged the Strongest Souls

Part 3—The Bomb’s Aftermath, U.S. Occupation, and Finding Love

Read Part 2 >> Many treating the wounded in the first few weeks after the blast had not…

Jon Stroud • Aug. 7, 2022

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Lilly Krohn: Out of Suffering Have Emerged the Strongest Souls

Part 2—The Explosion: Rapid Destruction and Loss of Life

Read Part 1 >> The plummeting bomb missed its aiming point, a T-shaped bridge below with pro…

Jon Stroud • July 31, 2022

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Lilly Krohn: Out of Suffering Have Emerged the Strongest Souls

Part 1—The Build-Up and Then Late for Work

Lilly Krohn, of Laconia, Indiana on most sunny days could be seen working out in her garden or taki…

Jon Stroud • July 24, 2022

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Sansei Natsukashii

During World War II, my Nisei mother and her family were sent from Honolulu to a concentration camp…

Alden M. Hayashi • July 19, 2022

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Japanese Canadians: Race, Religion, and Confinement

The current exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum, entitled Sutra and Bible: Fai…

Greg Robinson • June 22, 2022

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Eighty Years Ago The World Changed For Japanese Canadians

TORONTO — Imagine! This year, 2022, is the 80th anniversary of when we Japanese Canadians wer…

Frank Moritsugu • June 13, 2022

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The Times of Tulelake

Located near the Oregon-California border, the ghost of what once was one of California’s two…

Kyra Karatsu • May 10, 2022

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Part 5—Return to Japan and Final Days

Part 4—U.S. Citizenship, Family, and Brink of Death

Part 3—The Bomb’s Aftermath, U.S. Occupation, and Finding Love

Part 2—The Explosion: Rapid Destruction and Loss of Life

Part 1—The Build-Up and Then Late for Work

Sansei Natsukashii

Japanese Canadians: Race, Religion, and Confinement

Eighty Years Ago The World Changed For Japanese Canadians

The Times of Tulelake