In the Japanese community of Southern California, which has a history of 120 years, the Jodo Shinshu Nishi Honganji Buddhist Church played a role as a cultural and community center for Japanese immigrants more than just a religious institution, especially for about 60 years in the first half of the …
The story is set in Tokyo just after the war. Jiro walks five kilometers to school every day to attend an elementary school attended by children from wealthy families in the educational district of the city center. There is something that Jiro cannot tell his classmates or teachers. Jiro has …
Nishi Honganji Los Angeles Betsuin, located in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, can be said to be the base of the Jodo Shinshu Nishi Honganjiha sect in Southern California. For over 45 years, this temple has been hosting a song show called the "American version of the Red and White Battle" …
Most Japanese language schools in Los Angeles, established by Issei nearly a century ago, have the word gakuen in their names—such as Pasadena Gakuen. However, the original Japanese name of “Japanese Institute of Sawtelle (JIS)” is “Sawtelle Nihon Gakuin.”
The history of Japanese-American soldiers during World War II is best known for the 442nd Combat Team, which served on the European front. However, during the training stage before being sent to the European front as part of the 442nd, 21 Japanese-American soldiers were charged with treason, sentenced to prison, …
Satsuki Ina (70), professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, was born in May 1944 in the Tule Lake internment camp in California. She is a counseling professional who has worked to provide mental care to Japanese Americans who experienced life in the internment camps. In my previous essay , …
I first heard the name Henry Fukuhara, a second-generation Japanese watercolor artist, in May 2014 when I met Mary Higuchi, a third-generation Japanese artist who was expressing her experiences in the internment camps through watercolors. Higuchi has no memories of her time at the Poston internment camp in Arizona, as …
I was asked to go to Berkeley in September to interview Satsuki Ina- Sensei, emeritus of California State University Sacramento. (Satsuki Ina is 70 years old).
わたしの伯母（母の姉）は、現在90歳近くになるが、広島での原子爆弾体験を約20年前まで、語らなかった。わたしの母の家族は、戦争当時は、広島市に近い呉市で暮らしており、伯母は、1945年8月6日朝、広島駅に停車していた列車の中にいた。戦争体験について、わたしの広島県呉の家族と同じように語りたくない、という傾向が、ロサンゼルスの日系アメリカ人たちの間にもあることに、最近、わたし自身が気がついた。
1930年代、約3万人の日本人が住んでいたロサンゼルス・リトル･トーキョー（小東京）で、日本人商店主たちが始めた「二世ウィーク」（二世週祭）イベントは、戦争時の中断を乗り越えて、今年で80周年を迎える。
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