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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 4: Suejiro Ibuki - Exile and Life in Japan

Read Part 3 >> Deportation to Japan after the Internment Suejiro and Mitsue were among the Nikkei who agreed to be deported to Japan rather …

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 3: Suejiro Ibuki - Pre-War Life in Vancouver, Uprooting, and Internment

One Nikkei who opted for deportation to Japan with his young family instead of dispersal to eastern Canada was Suejiro Ibuki. As he is no …

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 2: Historical Background - Life and Living Conditions in Japan

Read Part 1 >> The Journey to Japan and the Conditions That Awaited Them When Canada ended its deportation policy, almost 4000 Nikkei had already …

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 1: Historical Background - Deportation

The Dilemma for Incarcerated Nikkei Canadians: Dispersal to Eastern Canada or Deportation to Japan As World War II neared its end, the Canadian government had …

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Behind Barbed Wire – Part 1

Editor’s Note: The words and phrases used to describe Japanese American history vary considerably amongst scholars, government officials, and even those directly affected by Executive …

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Advice for Modern America, from When Buddhism Was Seen as a National Threat - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Hondo Lobley: Your work reminds us that at one time in this country being Buddhist was synonymous with being a racial …

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Advice for Modern America, from When Buddhism Was Seen as a National Threat - Part 1

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Buddhism was considered a threat to America. Hondo Lobley interviews scholar Duncan Williams about what we might …

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K.K. Kawakami, Cosmopolitan Issei Writer

One intriguing aspect of Japanese immigrant experience before World War II was the diverse intellectual life of community members. Although most early Issei were farmers …

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Ship Jumpers, Border Crossers, and Other "Illegal" Issei Immigrants

Here at Densho, we often draw parallels between the forced removal and subsequent incarceration of Japanese Americans from the West Coast and the treatment of …

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Finding Asian American Family Histories: Genealogist Marisa Louie Lee

“I will never forget seeing my great-grandfather’s photograph in his immigration case file,” Marisa Louie Lee recalls. “The moment I opened the folder and saw …