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Barbed Wire, Guard Tower, Tar Paper Barracks, Roll Call
The Tule Lake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum is miles from the Tule Lake camp site. It’s a…

Tamiko Nimura • March 9, 2023

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California concentration camps imprisonment incarceration pilgrimages Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
California concentration camps imprisonment incarceration pilgrimages Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
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Toronto Japanese Canadian Duo Releases Groundbreaking EP
“Quiet now, there is not a thing besides the low, humming sound of the bodyIn my mouth, c…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 2, 2023

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Annie Sumi Brian Kobayakawa Canada Japanese Canadians Kintsugi (exhibition) music Ontario racially mixed people Toronto
Annie Sumi Brian Kobayakawa Canada Japanese Canadians Kintsugi (exhibition) music Ontario racially mixed people Toronto
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American Dream
For professional opera singer Nina Yoshida Nelsen, the path of life has been full of unexpected twi…

Jackie Kojima • March 1, 2023

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An American Dream (opera) Arizona Asian Opera Alliance concentration camps imprisonment incarceration music Nina Yoshida Nelsen opera Poston concentration camp singing United States violins World War II camps
An American Dream (opera) Arizona Asian Opera Alliance concentration camps imprisonment incarceration music Nina Yoshida Nelsen opera Poston concentration camp singing United States violins World War II camps
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Ask a Historian: How Did Alaska Natives Wind Up Inside Japanese American Concentration Camps?
Brian Niiya delves into the hidden history of a group of Alaska Natives caught up in the WWII incar…

Brian Niiya • Feb. 13, 2023

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Alaska natives concentration camps World War II camps
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The Search for Truth: Piercing Three Layers of Deception
For years I have wanted to write about my family and ancestors to preserve stories of the struggl…

Alden M. Hayashi • Feb. 8, 2023

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Arkansas deportations families Hawaii Honolulu migration New Mexico Oahu prisons repatriation Sand Island detention facility Sand Island (Hawaii) Santa Fe United States World War II camps
Arkansas deportations families Hawaii Honolulu migration New Mexico Oahu prisons repatriation Sand Island detention facility Sand Island (Hawaii) Santa Fe United States World War II camps
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Tessaku
Setsuko Moriya — Part 1
“When you think about now, politically, we listen to the news of what’s happening in …

Emiko Tsuchida • Feb. 5, 2023

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Amache concentration camp California Colorado concentration camps Sacramento Setsuko Moriya Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps
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Katase Tanaka Family: Returning to Sonora After the Concentration of the Great War
At the start of 1942, Japanese immigrant communities living in diverse areas of North America start…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • Feb. 1, 2023

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Asaji Katase Baja California brides Hermosillo Mexico Mexico City picture brides Sonora Tlalpan wives World War II World War II camps
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The Power of Irei
Digging up Ways to Honor Her Ancestors—Kyoko Oda and Ireichō
Sometimes it takes a soft-spoken woman like Kyoko Oda to use her charm to make sure the lives of 12…

Sharon Yamato • Jan. 27, 2023

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California concentration camps Griffith Park internment camp Hawaii Ireichō Irei (project) Kilauea Military Camp Nancy Kyoko Oda Tujunga Tuna Canyon Detention Station United States U.S. Army internment camps World War II World War II camps
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Recollections from Jerome and Rohwer
In 2002-2004, I was honored to serve with two distinguished historical colleagues, the late Roger…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Jan. 22, 2023

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Arkansas biographies concentration camps imprisonment incarceration Jerome and Rohwer (book) Jerome (Ark.) memoirs Rohwer concentration camp United States World War II camps
Arkansas biographies concentration camps imprisonment incarceration Jerome and Rohwer (book) Jerome (Ark.) memoirs Rohwer concentration camp United States World War II camps
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Love and Reckoning: A Meditation On Family Photos
In my childhood home in Roseville, California, we had a room we called “the den.” It wa…

Tamiko Nimura • Dec. 6, 2022

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families family histories genealogy memory World War II camps
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