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Read Part 2 >>The Small Altars of Heart Mountain Relocation Center At least six small Buddhist altars were built at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center …
Read Part 1 >>The Kubose Shumidan The Kubose Shumidan, whose present home is The Buddhist Temple of Chicago, has a well-documented provenance. Gary Nakai, the 2011-president …
In March 1942, the U.S. military decreed that all persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast must relocate eastward. About 9,000 voluntarily moved,1 …
The 2015 San Jose Day of Remembrance that will take place on February 15, 2015, commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066, which occurred on …
It all began while doing research for a film on Stanley Hayami, the bright and promising young man killed in the final days of the …
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“What I have attempted to introduce in (Show Me the Way Home),” writes Takako Day in the preface to her brilliant, bold, highly significant, if …
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The story of my middle name brought pride and also pressure to me at a young age. My middle name is Chiyoko, named after my …
The elderly man leaned on his walker while shuffling across the wood-stained floor, pulling behind him what amounted to his life-support system. The wheels creaked, …
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All parents ruminate on what to name their child. They go through baby-naming books. Suggestions from family and friends. Fads of the day. Boy, girl, …
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The inscription on the front page of Michi Nishiura Weglyn’s landmark book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, reads: “Dedicated to …
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