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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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Sawtelle Japantown and the Future of America
Everyday America. That’s what many of the historic Japantowns across the state have become. In 2007…
Randall Fujimoto • June 6, 2014
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This is What It Means to Say Hanami in Seattle
Each time I’ve tried to write about hanami in Seattle, there’s something that makes me hesitate.
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Tamiko Nimura • April 30, 2014
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Strawberry Hill, British Columbia: A New Perspective On the 1942 Evacuation
On the Friday before Remembrance Day last year, I took part in a memorable presentation called Wome…
Susan Aihoshi • June 4, 2013
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Pearl Harbor attack, Hawaii, 1941
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Strawberry Hill (Surrey, B.C.)
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teachers
teaching
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi (book)
Vancouver (B.C.)
World War II
British Columbia
Canada
discrimination
education
Fraser Valley
interpersonal relations
Japanese Canadians
May Brown
neighborhoods
Pearl Harbor attack, Hawaii, 1941
racism
Remembrance Day (Canada)
Strawberry Hill (Surrey, B.C.)
Surrey (B.C.)
teachers
teaching
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi (book)
Vancouver (B.C.)
World War II
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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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