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Read Part 1 >> So can you describe leaving for Arkansas? That’s where you did your basic training? Right, right. Oh yeah. There were lots …
“I like to have my grandchildren know about it, where they’re from and what happened to their grandparents. And how hard they had to work …
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Forty five years ago, my father, Tatsuo Inouye, and I sat in the family kitchen to transcribe his Tule Lake Stockade Diary. My two little …
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WAPATO, Wash. —Growing up in Hawaii, Frank Iseri mastered the physically challenging responsibilities of a farmer. He rigorously honed that fitness in his spare time. …
The famous Vancouver Asahi baseball teams have been well-documented and the latest, a movie made in Japan called Asahi was the “icing on the cake”. …
Little Tokyo, 1941 As I walked toward Little Tokyo over the First Street Bridge from Boyle Heights, I felt the bracing power of the fiery sunset …
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In early May, a month before the 2014 World Cup, a judo film called A Grande Vitória (directed by Stefano Capuzzi) was released nationwide in …
Read Part 1 >> “BASEBALL SAVED US” The coming of World War II brought upheaval to the Japanese American community. On the mainland, all West …
Sport has played a major role in the life of Japanese American communities from the first establishment of those communities in the late nineteenth century …
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Art Ishii began his judo training in 1954 at Hollywood Judo Dojo in Los Angeles, CA, under the direction of senseis Takashi Kikuchi, Frank Emi, …
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