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I feel I have paid many times over for the position I took at Tule Lake.Certainly, you don’t go around telling people you spent time …
The book Unforgotten Voices from Heart Mountain by Joanne Oppenheim and Nancy Matsumoto captures the emotions and everyday life during World War II at the …
Yoshito Kuromiya was one of 63 Nisei who resisted being drafted during World War II from the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, incarceration camp for Japanese Americans …
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It was a warm summer day in August 2022, but I could feel my feet and hands growing colder, a scratch in my throat developing. …
In July-August 2019, the National Convention of JACL (Japanese American Citizens League) will be meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Up for consideration is Resolution …
The World War II American concentration camp experience was the darkest time in Japanese American history. It was also a black mark on America, as …
Read Part 1 >> THE OUTBREAK OF WAR I bid farewellto the faces of my sleeping childrenAs I am taken prisonerInto the cold night rain …
In these difficult political times, resistance appears every day—from marches to political organizing to Star Wars movies to hashtags. But for many within the Japanese …
My grandmother Kazuko Kuwabara passed away recently, and I can’t help but feel that a piece of history died with her. She was the only …
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NOTE FROM SUSAN YAMAMURA: This past week, I've been recounting my childhood memories of Minoru Tamesa [see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3]. He …
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