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May 3, 2023 marks the 100th birthday of the late Bay Area scholar and advocate Paul Takagi. As professor at UC Berkeley, Paul helped shape …
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Fish King in Glendale has announced that Hank “Toto” Kagawa passed away on the morning of March 16. He was 92. “Since 1956, Hank worked …
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Read Part 1 >> GOING BEYOND DEREK’S TOHOKU WORK Your work at The Hidden Japan has expanded to include creating events in Japan and America …
Since 2011, March 11 has become a day of remembrance for the hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives that were changed forever by the devastating …
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At the start of 1942, Japanese immigrant communities living in diverse areas of North America started to live days of torment. The attack on Pearl …
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Sometimes it takes a soft-spoken woman like Kyoko Oda to use her charm to make sure the lives of 125,284 incarcerated Japanese American are not …
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Doug Uchikura traveled the world through his job with Chevron seeking sources of energy and some of the places where he lived you may never …
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