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Part IV—After Pearl Harbor

Read Part 3 >> Ken Nakazawa was arrested by FBI agents on December 7, 1941, in the wake of Japan…

Greg Robinson • June 2, 2024

1940s ABC list biographies California concentration camps Department of Justice camps enemy aliens Fort Missoula internment camp journalism Ken Nakazawa Montana MS Gripsholm (ship) noncitizens Pearl Harbor attack, Hawaii, 1941 persons repatriation Terminal Island United States World War II World War II camps

On Nikkei

Episode 32: "The Development of San Pedro Brotherhood" - On the way to the coastline of Japan ①

From Americamura in Shima City, Mie Prefecture Since the year before last, I have been traveling by…

Ryusuke Kawai • July 14, 2023

Amerikamura (Shima, Mie Prefecture) California Honshu Japan jazz Mie Prefecture music Okinawan Prefecture San Pedro Swing (restaurant) Terminal Island Tokushima (city) Tokushima Prefecture United States

Kyo Maclear’s New Childrens’ Book Tells The Story of a Nisei Trailblazer

Author Gyo Fujikawa‘s books have been read, shared and loved by generations of families all over th…

Kelly Fleck • Nov. 25, 2019

artists authors book reviews California diversity Gyo Fujikawa illustrators It Began with a Page (book) Kyo Maclear reviews Terminal Island United States

A tour of the Japanese community in Los Angeles with a Japanese social studies teacher

Japanese people don't know about Japanese people I have been in America for 28 years. During that t…

Keiko Fukuda • Nov. 4, 2019

Buddhism California Crenshaw Gardena Buddhist Church Japan Japanese Americans Keiro (organization) Los Angeles religions Terminal Island United States Venice (neighborhood) Yohei Inoue

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

Finding Nikkei Roots Around the World

Travel uproots daily routines for new places and new discoveries. But, somehow, my own discoveries …

Ariel Okamoto • Oct. 15, 2018

California Discover Nikkei England families Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture Japan Nikkei Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Roots (series) Scotland Terminal Island United Kingdom United States World War II

Furusato: The Lost Japanese Fishing Village Between Los Angeles’ Ports

Inside her home in Southern California, Mary Izumi sits at her piano flipping through the yellowe…

Martin Macias Jr. • June 19, 2018

California Terminal Island United States World War II

An “Immersion” Into Terminal Island Nikkei Lives

As an oral historian, I have always been addicted to reading obituaries, especially those relatin…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • April 21, 2017

aquatic sports Arthur A. Hansen book reviews California communities fishing imprisonment incarceration Los Angeles Masaaki Kuwabara Naomi Hirahara newspapers Nichi Bei Weekly (newspaper) reviews Terminal Island Tujunga Tuna Canyon Detention Station United States World War II World War II camps

The town where Nikkei lived

Part 3 (Part 2) Terminal Island

Part 1 >> Minoru Fujiuchi, a second-generation Japanese-American born on Terminal Island, raised in…

Keiko Fukuda • June 26, 2013

California Los Angeles Terminal Island United States

The town where Nikkei lived

Part 3 (first half) Terminal Island

One Saturday afternoon, I was driving toward San Pedro. At a fork just before the end of the Harbor…

Keiko Fukuda • June 7, 2013

California Los Angeles Terminal Island United States

PAUL HOWARD TAKEMOTO and ALICE TAKEMOTO: On Resettlement, Revisiting the Past, and Reconnection - Part 2 of 2

Read part 1 >>REVISITING THE PASTIt took a visit to a cemetery in his father’s hometown in Hawaii—w…

Sojin Kim • May 28, 2011

Arkansas Baptists California communities conferences enemy aliens families family histories Garden Grove Baptist Church genealogy identity Japanese American Citizens League Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Maryland noncitizens persons Terminal Island United States Washington, D.C.

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