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How appropriate that on the 75th Anniversary of Miné Okubo’s pioneering graphic memoir, Citizen 13660, hailed for its groundbreaking account of the WWII incarceration by …
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To put it simply, Oshogatsu looked a little bit different this year. Maybe our kitchens lacked the same hustle, bustle, and lively commotion of the …
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I started volunteering at the Japanese American National Museum in 2000. I immediately took advantage of one of their services—access to the National Archives WWII …
Collections Management staff at the Japanese American National Museum often provide photographs and scans of items from the museum’s collections to highlight anniversaries, holidays, and …
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Lane Ryo Hirabayashi was an innovator in the field of Asian American Studies, a historian and storyteller who dedicated his life to deepening public knowledge …
The release of the book Citizen USA by the Japanese American National Museum has been over 75 years in the making. Written at the Manzanar …
On April 7, 2020, I heard that Irene Hirano Inouye, a member of Delta Phi Kappa in the mid-60s, passed away. I was saddened by …
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“There are so many wonderful stories waiting to be told. Just like the ‘junk’ in your parent’s garage that might really be an artifact that …
40 staff and 200 volunteers are the human resource numbers for the Japanese American National Museum. With volunteers outnumbering staff 5:1, the hallways and the …
For scholars of Japanese American history, telling the story of incarceration is important yet difficult. Doing justice to the complicated narrative of camp life and …
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