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We Have Been Here Before: A Speech for Tsuru for Solidarity and La Resistencia at the Northwest Detention Center

On Sunday, February 23, 2025, close to 300 people stood in the rain in front of the Northwest ICE…

Tamiko Nimura • March 16, 2025

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Nikkei family history written in film: Okaeri: The Spy of the Rising Sun

Noriko, Camila’s grandmother, keeps saying “my parents would be very happy” when her granddaughter …

Hiro Ramos Nako • Aug. 13, 2024

Camila Murayama Tagami deportations films genealogy Japanese Peruvians Peru World War II

The Search for Truth: Piercing Three Layers of Deception

For years I have wanted to write about my family and ancestors to preserve stories of the struggl…

Alden M. Hayashi • Feb. 8, 2023

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Redefining Home

Once upon a time, in the small village of Ruskin, there was a little girl named Reiko. She loved he…

Lillian Michiko Blakey • April 25, 2019

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 4: Suejiro Ibuki - Exile and Life in Japan

Read Part 3 >> Deportation to Japan after the Internment Suejiro and Mitsue were among the Nikkei…

Stan Kirk • Dec. 17, 2018

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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

Part 1: Historical Background - Deportation

The Dilemma for Incarcerated Nikkei Canadians: Dispersal to Eastern Canada or Deportation to Japan …

Stan Kirk • Nov. 26, 2018

Canada deportations immigration Japanese Canadians postwar World War II

Crystallizing Dreams: Testimony of Chieko Kamisato, former Crystal City resident

Chieko Kamisato is a Peruvian-American Nisei who spent time at the Crystal City concentration camp …

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato +1 • July 21, 2015

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Film: Documented

So, I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I’ve paid virtually no attention to the immigration deba…

Keiko K. • July 4, 2014

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The Boy Who Believed That Deportation Was an Adventure

Between 1942 and 1945, 1,771 Japanese nationals and their descendants in Peru were deported to the …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 7, 2014

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Tule Lake Segregation Center: Misperceptions and Misnomers Surrounding Resistance to JA Incarceration - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>3. Internee or Incarceree: Say What You Mean In the 1960s and 1970s, an attempt was m…

Stanley N. Shikuma • Aug. 29, 2013

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