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Decades ago, when I was studying for my degree in journalism, I had an extremely tough professor. He was a gruff, cynical curmudgeon who constantly …
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In recent years, the Nikkei community has engaged in a renewed discussion to reject the euphemistic and false terms the government used to minimize the …
“They came here to be American.” —Earl Hanson As we trace the calendar of Japanese American history through the images and words preserved in …
Read Part 4 >> While a major controversy between the Nikkei and Jewish communities had been resolved, no such consensus emerged in responses to the …
Read Part 2 >> Influenced and inspired by others A powerful statement was submitted to the CWRIC during a public hearing in San Francisco on …
On July 9, 1981, I submitted a memorandum on the subject “Use of term ‘concentration camps’” to the executive director of the Commission on Wartime …
It was almost 20 years ago when I read an article by Dexter Waugh in the San Francisco Examiner titled “Semantic debates on war camps” …
Part 4 >> When one examines the postwar printed record, whether memoirs by former inmates and officials or accounts by scholars and others, the result …
Part 3 >> Even as the mass round-up of West Coast Nikkei began, with an isolated group on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from …
Part 2 >> In discussing language, perhaps the best place to start is with the three- and four-letter epithets that were all but universally used …
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