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The wartime roundup and removal from the West Coast of 120,000 American citizens and permanent resi…

Esther Newman • Feb. 13, 2013

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Serpentine 2013: L.A. Artists Celebrate the Year of the Snake

Snakes get a bad rap in the West. In Christianity, the snake symbolizes temptation and the fall fro…

Meher McArthur • Feb. 12, 2013

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Hidden Hapa

“Hey, what are you doing over there with the Hapa?” Kathy and I looked over and ther…

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu • Feb. 11, 2013

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Journal Entry # "5" and His Sisters "3" and "4": "Appellative Antics..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 9, 2013

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Livestock Building at Hastings Park in Vancouver, B.C.

“Over 3,000 Japanese Canadian women and children, demonstrating resilience under deplorable c…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 8, 2013

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Nisei Served in All Services During WWII

Rehoboth, Mass. (Sept. 2, 2012)—Accounts of Japanese American participation in the military i…

James McIlwain +1 • Feb. 7, 2013

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Waking slowly

Waking slowly. I can still remember the exquisitely warm feeling of waking up at home in my bed ups…

Barbara Nishimoto • Feb. 5, 2013

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The Artist as Ghost Hunter: Edwin Ushiro and Envisioning Spirits

“One girl cried,” says Edwin Ushiro, recalling an audience member’s reaction to h…

Darryl Mori • Feb. 4, 2013

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Journal Entry #Over 2 Billion Users: “ ‘Net Factoids...”

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 2, 2013

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442nd Was High Point of Long Army Career

As a U.S. Army Lieutenant in 1944, I reported to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Headquarters at C…

Gerald A. Gustafson +1 • Feb. 1, 2013

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After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics - Dr. Greg Robinson