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Nikkei History Meets Multi-generational Family Memoir

Although its publisher markets Looking after Minidoka as a “memoir,” this volume can lay equal claim to being a “history.” It is, in fact, the …

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The Minidoka Pilgrimage and Continuing the Legacy

Today I received the news that my friend and fellow Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee member passed away. Frank was 2 years old during World War …

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

In My Parents’ Words – Issei Voices from Department of Justice Camps

My father was the resident minister of the Seattle Buddhist Church. The construction of the temple on 14th Avenue & Main Street was nearing completion. …

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Nikkei View

Museums—Even Tiny Ones—Are Where Our Collective Culture is Stored

I visited the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center in Portland, Oregon last week while on a business trip to the northwest, and I was struck at …

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Mr. Hori and the Panama Hotel, a Nisei Story - Part 7

Read Part 6 >> In the fall of 1943, the Japanese internees at Puyallup, Washington were bused to the train tracks in Puyallup, and travelled by …

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Panama Hotel

New York Times Best Seller Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was a Christmas gift from my daughter. The author Jamie Ford autographed …

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‘Signs of Home’: The art, life and wartime diary of Kamekichi Tokita

Artist Kamekichi Tokita came to America from Japan in 1919 and achieved moderate success painting familiar scenes near his Seattle home—a back yard, an alley, …

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Don Maeda still making crowns at 86 - Part 1 of 4

For more than half a century Donald S. Maeda has been making dental crowns—and is still making them at age 86 in his own Roseville …

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Nikkei View

The World Still Needs Min Yasui

It’s easy to lose sight of someone’s national reputation if that person is a part of the local fabric. I'm reminded of this fact about …

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From Densho's Archives

Real Friends: Standing by the Japanese Americans

"Everywhere there is community feeling to be mended, vicious legislation to be defeated, many urgent jobs calling for attention from real friends of the real …