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In my efforts to learn about Nisei soldier history, I inevitably began to learn more about the incarceration of the Mainland Nikkei during World War …
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Read Part 1 >> Q: How did you come to buy the Panama Hotel? One day, Mr. Hori informed me that he was planning to sell …
Jan Johnson is a well-known name, not just in Seattle but throughout the world. She has welcomed thousands of visitors to the historic Panama Hotel …
“The little package of questions for which your parents don’t have answers,” says Mizu Sugimura, “they will give to you.” Sugimura is a visual artist …
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The historical narrative surrounding the wartime confinement of ethnic Japanese in the United States grows ever more complex. In the last years, historians and activists …
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Read Part 1 >> Sales of home appliances in Puerto Rico; Starting restaurant business in Florida Tosna International S.A. is the name of the company …
Solving conflicts in the Dominican Republic when working at a trading company I was born in 1938 (Showa 13), in Kochi Prefecture. Ryoma Sakamoto’s grave …
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Chieko Kamisato is a Peruvian-American Nisei who spent time at the Crystal City concentration camp in the United States between 1944 and 1946. Recently, she …
Read Part 7 >> From Mr. Hori’s stories, I tried to imagine camp life in the middle of the Idaho desert. Especially, this being the age …
Read Part 6 >> In the fall of 1943, the Japanese internees at Puyallup, Washington were bused to the train tracks in Puyallup, and travelled by …
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