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Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, 2012 Campaign

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One of our former co-workers, who currently lives in Hawaii, recently mailed the 2012 campaign materials of Senator Daniel K. Inouye. We scanned the endorsement cards and campaign materials to …

community history
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My Journey to Discover the Legacy of my Grandma, Yuri Kochiyama

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This album is a collection of personal pictures as well as pictures gathered from the internet and the Japanese American National Museum archives that I have compiled to illustrate my …

family history
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Taken: Oregonians Arrested after Pearl Harbor

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This album illustrates the experiences of families in Oregon taken into custody and imprisoned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DoJ) as a result of …

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Baptist Churches in Pre-WWII Imperial Japan

mhomma

This album highlights the Wada family Christian missionary work in Japan before 1930. The Wada family started and served at several churches in Northern Japan as well as the Tokyo …

online exhibition
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The Heart Mountain Barracks Project

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In 1942, hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans, living on the West Coast were forced to live in internment camps due to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066.  After the …

community history
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Camp Tanoshii 2009

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Camp Tanoshii is a week-long summer day camp created for elementary school students between the ages of six and nine. It is located at the Japanese Cultural Institute in Gardena, …

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The Little Tokyo Café

Jamal_Fahim

The Little Tokyo Café is a small, family run restaurant that is located on N. San Pedro St. Its owner, Mitsuko Minohara, is a second generation Japanese immigrant whose mother …

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Part of these albums:
Little Tokyo Community Profiles Collected by: mpitelka

Gokurosama: Contemporary Photographs of the Nisei in Hawai'i

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This Nikkei Album collection includes a selection of photographs from Honolulu photographer Brian Y. Sato's exhibition, Gokurōsama: Contemporary Photographs of the Nisei in Hawai‘i, which features 35 black & white …

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Five Views of Redress: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary

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The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 culminated almost two decades of struggle to win official government acknowledgement of the violation of Japanese American constitutional rights during World War II. The …

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Bill Shishima

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Bill Shishima, a docent at the Japanese American National Museum, was interned at Heart Mountain during World War II. This collection gives a brief look into his life featuring pictures …

family history
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