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Telling the Story to Understand the History

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the United States entered WWII, thousands of American citizens who shared ancestry and facial features …

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Rural and Urban Nisei Baseball – A Comparison - Part 2

Baseball players from the Stockton and Yamato teams around 1930. Rev. Sensho Sasaki Collection, Gift of the Sasaki Family, Japanese American National Museum [96.150]. Read …

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Rural and Urban Nisei Baseball – A Comparison - Part 1

“Sundays became exciting during the summer. Baseball was not only fun, but it was a way of bonding with the other Nisei,” remembered Jerry Inouye, …

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

Legacy of Redress: Stand Up, Speak Out!

I was born in Manzanar on August 9, 1945, the day that the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Three days …

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Jack Muro: Still Patriotic After All

“Give me liberty or give me death!” was the climactic closing statement of a speech given by Patrick Henry, in 1775, as one of the …

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Old Rags, Some Grand

“These Colors Don’t Run,” I keep reading. Small wonder, after six months holding on by a thread to a speeding Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer. There …