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The Kawamoto-Wipala Farm in Leland Washington: A Farm for the Ages — Part 3

Read Part 2 >> In a 1933 double wedding, Joe married Jean Nakata, and his sister Pauline married…

Pamela A. Okano • Nov. 19, 2023

Bainbridge Island California concentration camps families farms forced removal grocery stores Kawamoto-Wipala farm Leland stores Tule Lake concentration camp United States Washington World War II World War II camps

The Kawamoto-Wipala Farm in Leland Washington: A Farm for the Ages — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> At some point, Kaichi found an abandoned homestead next to Lake Leland that he want…

Pamela A. Okano • Nov. 12, 2023

agriculture families farms Kawamoto-Wipala farm Leland United States Washington

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

In Remembrance of the Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami: An Interview with The Hidden Japan’s Derek Yamashita — Part 1

Since 2011, March 11 has become a day of remembrance for the hundreds of thousands of Japanese li…

Japanese American National Museum • March 10, 2023

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The Times of Tulelake

Located near the Oregon-California border, the ghost of what once was one of California’s two inter…

Kyra Karatsu • May 10, 2022

California farms Michael Wells postwar Tule Lake (Calif.) United States World War II

Jun Yoneda, working to promote Japanese vegetables in the United States

The Great East Japan Earthquake was a turning point Jun Yoneda is the CEO of Food's Style USA, whic…

Keiko Fukuda • March 22, 2021

farms food Jun Yoneda Santouka (restaurant) vegetables

The Undiscovered History of Japanese Americans and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> As mentioned, throughout the prewar years Japanese Americans, especially those in t…

Greg Robinson +1 • Jan. 31, 2019

farms Hawai'i Idaho Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Americans Mike Masaoka religion seasonal labor sugar beets United States Utah World War II

Ode to Mi Madre and Other Nisei Moms

You could call this a belated birthday message to my mother, Elsie Osajima, who turned 93 this past…

Mary Uyematsu Kao • Jan. 28, 2019

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If you make Brazil your "hometown," plant cherry trees - Nostalgia and Japanese immigrants to Brazil - Part 1

"It looks just like the tea fields in Shizuoka." When I went to cover the tea fields in Registro, a…

Masayuki Fukasawa • Dec. 20, 2018

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Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

The Tea of Soul from Aizuwakamatsu Revived After 150 Years

History of Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm About 150 years ago in 1869, the first group of approximate…

Nao Magami • Sept. 7, 2018

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Hatsumi Imagawa’s Return to America

I was surrounded by thousands of passengers; many were Japanese immigrants just like me. But amid…

Jennifer Chen • June 6, 2018

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