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John Mitani spent his entire faculty career at University of Michigan (U-M), a career that was not available to either of his parents. Now the …
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Read Part 3 >> How did you meet your wife? Well, I was in the army, so I went to a USO dance. That’s where …
Read Part 2 >> So actually, just to backtrack a little bit. When you actually left Manzanar to Tule Lake, how did you get there? Did …
Read Part 1 >> Can we get your parents names and then your sister’s name? My mother’s name was Tomiko. And my father’s name was …
“My dad had to get rid of his business. I think that was really hard for him ‘cause he worked so hard. I didn’t realize …
One of most divisive chapters of the Japanese American incarceration is the story of Tule Lake. While established as a traditional War Relocation Authority (WRA) …
There are many untold and, possibly, forgotten stories in one’s family history. In an earlier article in the 2011 Holiday Issue of Pacific Citizen, the …
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“Tule Lake, Tule Lake—thatwas a name I dared not mentionspoken warily, always withhesitation, never voluntarily...”—an excerpt from “A Meeting at Tule Lake,” a poem by …
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