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Narratives of Resilience and Resistance—Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung on The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration — Part 2

Read Part 1 Jonathan van Harmelen (JVH): One thing I noticed about the government edicts is that …

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 8, 2024

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Kyoko Oda Was Born in the Tule Lake Concentration Camp

Father's camp diary published as book The Camp Wall, scheduled for completion in 2026 in Columbia …

Keiko Fukuda • Sept. 5, 2024

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Tying a Family Together: My Grandmother’s Wedding Obi

Growing up I was always fascinated by the blue trunk in our sunroom. When opened, it reeked of mo…

Caitlin Oiye Coon • April 23, 2024

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The Power of Irei

The Legacy of Resistance: Nimura/Kashiwagi Family at Ireichō

I feel I have paid many times over for the position I took at Tule Lake.Certainly, you don’t go a…

Sharon Yamato • Nov. 1, 2023

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One Fighting Irishman — A Conversation With Filmmaker Sharon Yamato

Wayne Mortimer Collins is an important name for my family. I first learned about this heroic, brash…

Tamiko Nimura • Oct. 17, 2023

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Life in the Tule Lake Stockade

There now exists a richly diverse number of publications devoted to the World War II concentration …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Sept. 1, 2022

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Tule Lake Resisters: My E.O. 9066 Story

The World War II American concentration camp experience was the darkest time in Japanese American h…

Yukio Kawaratani • April 5, 2019

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Resistance at Tule Lake—Talking with Filmmaker Konrad Aderer

In these difficult political times, resistance appears every day—from marches to political organizi…

Tamiko Nimura • Jan. 29, 2018

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 9 of 9

Read Part 8 >> The government pursued a hard line, determined to challenge the bid of each renuncia…

Barbara Takei • May 10, 2013

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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 8 of 9

Read Part 7 >> Creating Alien Enemies Edward Ennis’ Deputy in the DOJ Alien Enemy Control Unit, Joh…

Barbara Takei • May 3, 2013

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