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Bunkado: Gifts and Music

Bunkado, meaning “House of Culture” was founded in 1945 by Tokio Ueyama and his wife Suye. Suye and Tokio had just been released from the internment camps, meaning that Tokio …

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

Nihonmachi: Portland's Japantown

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In the 1890s, hundreds of young Japanese immigrants arrived in Oregon to work on the railroads, lumber mills, farms, and fish canneries. Portland was the hub from which these Issei, …

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