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Tule Lake Committee chair Hiroshi Shimizu attended his first Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 1994, clutching a folder of papers written in Japanese. He had seen …
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My name is Delia Tomino Nakayama and I wrote the English column “Tomi-Talk” for San Francisco Japantown’s Hokubei Mainichi newspaper for approximately 10 years until …
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Read Part 1 >>4) Going Online: On that note, resources must be diverted into developing the online business, including building the requisite online infrastructure and …
The last few years have been tough for newspapers in general and Japanese American newspapers in particular. Newspaper readership overall has been in decline for …
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>> Part 1In 1942, the Sacramento Hiroshima Kenjin-kai dissolved as members were separated and sent to different concentration camps. Kenjin-kai members didn’t regroup until after …
In researching kenjin-kai, I was appalled at the lack of interest demonstrated by the majority of authors of Japanese American historical literature who never elaborated …
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Most Nisei will remember Jack Matsuoka’s drawings from the seventies published in Hokubei Mainichi, along with his series, Sensei, and his book about relocation camp …
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