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As we come into the end of 2024, I wanted to share a piece I wrote as a reflection of the pilgrimag…

Nikkei Progressives +1 • Dec. 19, 2024

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

Conversations with the Ancestors I Never Got to Meet

“You can’t give her a Japanese name. It will ruin her life.” My grandmother Marjorie Julia pleaded …

Midori Samson • Dec. 2, 2024

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Barbed Wire, Guard Tower, Tar Paper Barracks, Roll Call

The Tule Lake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum is miles from the Tule Lake camp site. It’s a small…

Tamiko Nimura • March 9, 2023

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Reflections on a Pilgrimage: The Dust of Poston

My mother’s memories of Poston are thick with dust. When I ask my 93-year-old mother about Poston,…

Janis Hirohama • Jan. 24, 2023

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

In memoriam...Jim Matsuoka

It is with my heaviest, yet most grateful heart that I present this poetic speech from our beloved …

Jim H. Matsuoka +1 • Nov. 17, 2022

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Nikkei View

This Year’s Pilgrimage to Amache Will Be Very, Very Special

Every year on the Saturday before Labor Day Weekend, people converge in southeast Colorado to visit…

Gil Asakawa • April 8, 2022

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Creating a Sense of Community in Idaho - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Q: I only experienced Idaho through the Minidoka Pilgrimage and during that time, a…

Dina Furumoto • Sept. 18, 2020

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Creating a Sense of Community in Idaho - Part 1

I live in a bubble. I did not grow up nor in my adult life have I traveled and explored the United…

Dina Furumoto • Sept. 17, 2020

Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Importance of Place: The Manzanar Pilgrimage and COVID-19

Like so many events these days, the 51st annual Manzanar Pilgrimage was cancelled on Thursday, Apri…

Jonathan van Harmelen • June 19, 2020

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Pilgrimage to former internment camp reveals untold story of Japanese Latin American incarceration

It was only a few years ago that I heard the term “Japanese Latin American” (JLA). This is perhaps …

Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik • Feb. 21, 2020

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