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How a Japanese-American Owned Real Estate Firm Broke up Racist Covenants in Southern California - Part 2
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Since 1910, Los Angeles has boasted the largest population of Japanese Americans in…
Patricia Wakida • May 24, 2022

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How a Japanese-American Owned Real Estate Firm Broke up Racist Covenants in Southern California - Part 1
Back in the mid-1940s, a Mrs. Lopez called up Kashu Realty in L.A.’s Crenshaw district and asked to…
Patricia Wakida • May 23, 2022

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Nanka Nikkei Voices
Resettlement
Akio “Lawrence” Nakagawa, a Kibei from the Sacramento Delta region, was interned at the Topaz, Ut…
Martha Nakagawa • June 10, 2015
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California
chick sexing
concentration camps
education
farms
Florida
Japanese American Historical Society of Southern California
Little Tokyo
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Nanaka Nikkei Voices (series)
neighborhoods
New Jersey
no-no boys
postwar
publications
resettlements
Seabrook Farms
Seinan (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Southwest Los Angeles
students
Tule Lake concentration camp
United States
World War II
World War II camps

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The town where Nikkei lived
Part 1 (Part 2) Southwest Los Angeles (Crenshaw District)
Read the first part >> Why on earth did all the Japanese people in the Southwest area disappear to …
Keiko Fukuda • March 26, 2013

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The town where Nikkei lived
Part 1 (first half): Southwest Los Angeles (Crenshaw District)
One day, a friend showed me a photo he had taken on his digital camera. A torii gate stood with the…
Keiko Fukuda • March 5, 2013

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Shinmoto Family - Part 3
Read part 2 >>The Shinmoto family was back together again in the Los Angeles area by late 1946. Fat…
Minoru Shinmoto • Oct. 30, 2011

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Shinmoto Family - Part 2
Read part 1 >>It was August 1942 when we boarded trains to unknown places. I remember going through…
Minoru Shinmoto • Oct. 23, 2011

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Shinmoto Family - Part 1
The Shinmoto family history in America dates back to 1923, when Tsuneo Anthony (Tony), then five mo…
Minoru Shinmoto • Oct. 16, 2011
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