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Yayoi and I walked across a university campus admiring its historic gate, patinaed statues, and path replete with fallen yellow fan-shaped leaves. We had passed …
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During World War II, Japanese communities around the Pacific rim and elsewhere were subjected to displacement, internment, or incarceration. While the case of the West …
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Read Part 1 >> Jiro’s Parents Remembering his father who has since passed on, Jiro shares his own experiences. JT: He was a wonderful man, who …
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall is an award winning author of children’s and young adult (YA) books. Her titles include Also an Octopus, about an octopus who builds …
Yujin’s was the first familiar face I saw after arriving in Tokyo. Our reunion was on a street lined with stores selling Buddhist merchandise. I …
“Dutch” Leonard is no longer a household name, but he left behind an enduring reputation in baseball history. Originally born in Birmingham, Ohio and raised …
Few artists captured the wartime experiences of American GIs like Bill Mauldin. One of the most prolific cartoonists of the mid-20th century, Mauldin chronicled the …
Last summer my brother was riding a public bus in Palo Alto, California, and, when the driver stopped to let him off, the rear exit …
Read Part 3 >> For the next twenty years, there was little in the way of Japanese American literature that included any mention of African …
Read Part 2 >> Throughout the postwar years, up until the late 1960s and 1970s, there was a relative dearth of Japanese American literature in …
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