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U.S. Mint Begins Shipping Patsy Mink Quarter
Groundbreaking Hawaii congresswoman recognized on the quarter. The United States Mint began ship…

The Rafu Shimpo • April 11, 2024

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American Women Quarters Program Hawaii Patsy Takemoto Mink Title IV United States United States Congress United States Representative
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CPA and lawyer Hikaru Fujimoto, who moved to the U.S. in 1985 and lives in Chicago
Pushed by his father to study in the US I got to know Hikaru Fujimoto, a CPA based in Chicago, whe…

Keiko Fukuda • March 4, 2024

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A New Look at Nisei Veterans: Lawrence Matsuda and Matt Sasaki’s Fighting for America
In recent years, Chin Music Press has produced a great run of graphic novels on the wartime Japanes…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Nov. 8, 2023

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armed forces Fighting for America (graphic novel) generations Lawrence Matsuda Matt Sasaki Nisei retired military personnel veterans World War II
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Japanese-American Lawyer in Hawaii - Christine A. Kubota
Becoming a tour guide taking Japanese people to Japan Apart from the Shin-Issei whose parents were …

Keiko Fukuda • Sept. 25, 2023

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bilingual Christine A. Kubora generations Hawaii lawyers Sansei United States
bilingual Christine A. Kubora generations Hawaii lawyers Sansei United States
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Yugo Tomita, an immigration lawyer who studied abroad in the US in high school to become a truck driver
Experience the class-based society of America I have interviewed many new immigrants who have left…

Keiko Fukuda • Aug. 18, 2023

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California generations immigrants immigration immigration law Issei Japan lawyers Los Angeles migration postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II Yugo Tomita
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An In-Depth Examination of the WRA’s Legal System
As someone who has taught both history and literature classes, I recently had my curiosity arouse…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 8, 2023

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concentration camps Eric L. Muller law Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe (book) United States War Relocation Authority World War II World War II camps
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Death of Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is a set of policies and practices aimed at promoting diversity and equal opport…

Drew Yamamura • Aug. 6, 2023

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affirmative action education governments law policies racism students United States Supreme Court
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My Name is Neal
Journal Entry #5 Laws: "Rules of the Road..."
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • June 3, 2023

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cartoonists cartoons chance fate humor life Murphy's law pessimism
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Eriko Higa, born in Japan, raised in Bolivia, became a lawyer in the United States
Both parents grew up in Colonia Okinawa, Bolivia. I first met Eriko Higa, an immigration lawyer ba…

Keiko Fukuda • April 24, 2023

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Bolivia California dekasegi foreign workers immigrants immigration Japan lawyers Los Angeles migration Nikkei in Japan Okinawa Prefecture Santa Cruz (Bolivia) United States
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Jorge Otsu, a self-taught master of Registration Law
Mr. Jorge Otsu Maradiegue is the father of Dr. George Otsu, who has recently been appointed Directo…

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato • April 17, 2023

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Jorge Otsu Maradiegue notary publics Peru registry law Ricardo Ortiz de Zevallos Notary (firm)
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