Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

The Japanese Mutual Aid Society and Charles Yasuma Yamazaki - Part 1

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Background

Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

Eizo Yanagi - Part 2

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

Eizo Yanagi - Part 1

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Introduction

Atypical Japanese Women - The First Japanese Female Medical Doctor and Nurses in Chicago - Part 2

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Atypical Japanese Women - The First Japanese Female Medical Doctor and Nurses in Chicago - Part 1

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According to The Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago “has been and remains a world-class religious center with global influence.”1 Beginning in the mid-19th century, Japan was one of the foreign countries on which Chicago had a strong impact on, in the form of modern education.

The Chicago Nisei Before World War II - Part 2

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The Chicago Nisei Before World War II - Part 1

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Michitaro Ongawa: The First Japanese American Chicagoan - Part 2

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Michitaro Ongawa: The First Japanese American Chicagoan - Part 1

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On July 8, 1867, the Chicago Tribune reported a love story between a Chicago girl and a Japanese acrobat. Traveling acrobats were most likely the first Japanese people who came to Chicago after the Shogunate began allowing ordinary people to go overseas in 1866. “Out of the very first seventy-one …