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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 Hawai'i Honolulu migration New Mexico Oahu prisons repatriation Sand Island detention facility Sand Island (Hawai'i) Santa Fe United States World War II camps
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Toru Matsumoto: The New York Years
My recent Discover Nikkei article on Tsuyoshi Matsumoto has prompted interest from readers in oth…

Greg Robinson • Dec. 13, 2017

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Christianity Christians generations Hokkaido Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Michigan migration New York (state) Toru Matsumoto United States
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FBI Searches and Arrests: Imperial Valley, 1941–1942
Thirteen-year-old Tatsuo Asamen did not yet have a driver’s license but he nonetheless drove an old…

Tim Asamen • Sept. 1, 2016

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1940s 1942 ABC list arrests (detention) California communities enemy aliens generations immigrants immigration Imperial Valley imprisonment Issei Japan leadership migration Nisei noncitizens persons searches and seizures Southern California Tujunga Tuna Canyon Detention Station United States World War II World War II camps
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Q&A with Heidi Kim, editor of Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story
Heidi Kim is a writer, literary scholar, and editor of the new book, Taken from the Paradise Isle…

Darryl Mori • Jan. 6, 2016

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arts concentration camps Department of Justice George Hoshida Hawai'i Heidi Kim Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Taken from the Paradise Isle (book) United States World War II World War II camps
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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II
Journalist Yasutaro Soga’s Detention on Angel Island During World War II
Japanese immigrants were arrested by the FBI on both the mainland U.S. and the islands of the Terri…

Grant Din • May 14, 2015

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Angel Island (Calif.) authors California enemy aliens Hawai'i imprisonment incarceration Japanese language newspapers journalism journalists newspapers Nippu Jiji (newspaper) noncitizens persons United States World War II Yasutaro Soga
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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II
Angel Island Was One of Eight Detention Centers for Otokichi Ozaki
Ozaki was born November 3, 1904 in Kochi-ken, Japan, and came to Hawaiˋi on April 24, 1917. Otokich…

Grant Din • April 27, 2015

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Angel Island (Calif.) California Family Torn Apart (book) Fort Sill internment camp generations Hawai'i Hawai'i Island immigrants immigration imprisonment incarceration Issei Japan Japanese Americans Kilauea (Hawaii) Kilauea Military Camp Kilauea Military Detention Camp migration Oklahoma Otokichi Ozaki United States U.S. Army internment camps U.S. National Park Service (organization) World War II World War II camps
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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II
Mantsuchi and Sojuro Nakamura: Japanese Immigrant Farmers in California’s Central Valley
Mantsuchi Nakamura was born on February 27, 1877 in Hiroamachi, a small village in Yamaguchi-ken …

Grant Din • April 15, 2015

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Alien Land Law of 1913 (Calif.) alien land laws Angel Island (Calif.) California Fort McDowell/Angel Island temporary detention center Fresno immigration imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans land tenure law Reedley Sharp Park internment camp temporary detention centers United States U.S. National Park Service (organization) World War II World War II camps
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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II
The Hoshidas’ Journeys Through Angel Island during World War II
George Yoshio Hoshida was arrested and detained on February 6, 1942. Information in his file at the…

Grant Din • April 6, 2015

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Angel Island (Calif.) Arkansas artists California concentration camps generations George Hoshida Hawai'i Hawai'i Island immigrants immigration imprisonment incarceration Issei Japan Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Jerome concentration camp Kilauea (volcano) migration National Archives and Records Administration United States World War II World War II camps
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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II
George Hishida – A Life in Photography Interrupted by World War II
George Mioya Hishida was born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1896 to a Christian missionary father who was…

Grant Din • March 26, 2015

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Angel Island (Calif.) California citizenship concentration camps Fresno generations George Hoshida George Mioya Hishida George Photography Studio immigrants immigration imprisonment incarceration Issei Japan Japanese Americans letters migration naturalization photographers photography repatriation Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
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The Japanese in Peru: Lessons for the Justice Department 70 years later*
Seventy years ago this week, 425 men from California entered a detention camp in Santa Fe, New Mexi…

Neil H. Simon • April 11, 2012

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Department of Justice camps Japanese Latin Americans New Mexico Peru Redress movement Santa Fe internment camp United States war World War II World War II camps
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