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History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 3: Postwar Community Revitalization and Redress Movement

Read Part 2 >> As a historian, Izumi says that the ongoing use of euphemistic language to descri…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 18, 2023

academics (persons) China colonization Doshisha University Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Kyoto (city) Manchuria Masumi Izumi Pacific Ocean scholars universities World War II

History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 2: Japanese American vs Japanese Canadian Internment/Incarceration

Read Part 1 >> Izumi first learned about the Japanese American incarceration experience in 1984: …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 11, 2023

academics (persons) China colonization Doshisha University Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Kyoto (city) Manchuria Masumi Izumi Pacific Ocean scholars universities World War II

History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 1: Family Background

I had the honour of interviewing History Professor Masumi Izumi earlier this year. Dr. Izumi is …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 4, 2023

academics (persons) China colonization Doshisha University Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Kyoto (city) Manchuria Masumi Izumi Pacific Ocean scholars universities World War II

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Chapter Two—Wheelbarrow Wars

Shinshi-san went into her second bedroom, the one filled with mulberry leaves, and checked on the s…

Naomi Hirahara • Dec. 4, 2019

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Chapter One—Jou Schnell: Keeping House

Jou Schnell looked out her window of her small four-room, wood-framed house on Gold Hill. Through t…

Naomi Hirahara • Nov. 4, 2019

Nikkei Chronicles #8—Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

The Family of Shinjiro Dote and Pre-WWII Japanese of El Dorado County, CA.

The trials and tribulations of pre–World War II Japanese on the West Coast are well documented, but…

Ryan Ford • Oct. 15, 2019

California colonization Discover Nikkei El Dorado County heroes Japanese Americans Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Heroes (series) United States Wakamatsu Colony

The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier

Supplement: The Article that Revealed Okei to the World

The Wakamatsu Colony, born of the dreams and labor of the new immigrants, collapsed in only two yea…

Junko Yoshida • May 8, 2019

agriculture California colonization Japanese Americans migration Okei United States Wakamatsu Colony

The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier

Part 3: Sharing of Family Stories

Read Part 2 >> Kuni Takes a Local as His Wife Following the collapse of the Wakamatsu Colony, a s…

Junko Yoshida • May 1, 2019

California colonization Japanese Americans migration United States Wakamatsu Colony

The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier

Part 2: Okei's California Home

Read Part 1 >> The story of the first Japanese woman to be buried in American soil emerges from hi…

Junko Yoshida • March 25, 2019

agriculture California colonization Japanese Americans migration Okei United States Wakamatsu Colony

The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier

Part 1: Pioneers Who Brought Their Hopes and Dreams

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first Japanese American settlement on the North Americ…

Junko Yoshida • March 18, 2019

agriculture California colonization Japanese Americans migration United States Wakamatsu Colony

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