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In Part 5, I wrote about the pinnacle of Yoemon’s barbershop business in Walla Walla. This time I will focus on Yoemon’s other challenge: Atae’s …
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The “Central Utah Relocation Center”—more popularly known as Topaz—was located at a dusty site in the Sevier Desert and had one of the most urban …
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Read Part 5 >> Return by Train to Father’s Hometown The family stayed for about a week at the home of an uncle in Mitaka …
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Read Part 1 >> Excerpts taken from the 1946 SHS Yearbook Mayor McArthur’s speech to the 1946 grads: Most of you are of Japanese origin, …
How this ‘mystery album’ fell onto my lap is, in Japanese, fushigi or in English, ‘surreal.’ To top it off, this album belonged to a young …
Did you know that there was a very small settlement of Japanese Canadians at the McLean Mill in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in the …
These days, Sansei are running out of knowledgeable elders who can tell us of the past. Thus, when I had a chance to join Eileen …
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Slideshow above: Manzanar Classroom Exhibit—Work In Progress. Photos by Gann Matsuda are ©2016 Manzanar Committee. All rights reserved. All materials shown here should be considered …
I don’t have a PhD in linguistics but I hope that a budding linguist major will get interested in this topic. In Hawaii, the first …
The Class of 2016 graduating from Minato Gakuen was congratulated once in San Diego in mid-March and again in Kyoto in early April. Here’s chapter …
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