
@esnewman
Esther Newman moved from Encinitas CA to Hawaii in 2016. After a career in marketing and media production for Ohio’s Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, she completed an M.A. in twentieth century American history, concentrating on Latin American Japanese during WWII. Her interests include topics affecting the Japanese Diaspora: internment, migration, assimilation and preserving cultural identity.
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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 7
Part 6 >>Amano and the others stepped off the train at Pennsylvania Station on June 16. Guards esco…
Aug. 18, 2010

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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 6
Part 5 >>Few prisoners spoke directly to the enemy in protest but some were willing to speak up whe…
Aug. 11, 2010

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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 5
Part 4 >>Spirits spiked and plummeted throughout the next several months that included the anxiety-…
Aug. 4, 2010

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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 4
Part 3 >>On the evening of December 7, 1941, Amano recalled ordering his two Panamanian maids to br…
July 28, 2010

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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 3
Part 2 >>Amano confirmed that military personnel did more than mistreat prisoners for entertainment…
July 21, 2010

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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 2
Part 1 >>In a July 1941 meeting, representatives from both the Department of Justice and the Depart…
July 14, 2010

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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 1
My grandfather, Yoshitaro Amano, was one of the more than two thousand Japanese Latin Americans sei…
July 7, 2010
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