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Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans – Part 5 of 5

Part 4 >> When one examines the postwar printed record, whether memoirs by former inmates an…

Roger Daniels • Feb. 6, 2008

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Discovering “Voices from Okinawa”

My father came to Hawaii from Okinawa in 1907 as an indentured laborer for a sugar plantation compa…

Jon Shirota • Feb. 6, 2008

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Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 4 of 5

Part 3 >> Even as the mass round-up of West Coast Nikkei began, with an isolated group on Ba…

Roger Daniels • Feb. 5, 2008

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Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 3 of 5

Part 2 >> In discussing language, perhaps the best place to start is with the three- and fou…

Roger Daniels • Feb. 3, 2008

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Journal Entry # 27-3: "I'm Turning Japanese..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 2, 2008

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Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 2 of 5

Part 1 >> The Roosevelt administration never intended to intern any sizable percentage of th…

Roger Daniels • Feb. 2, 2008

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Current Issues regarding the Brazilian Migration to Japan

In my presentation, I’ll discuss the migration of Japanese-Brazilians to Japan, a process tha…

Lili Kawamura • Feb. 1, 2008

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Words Do Matter: A Note on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans - Part 1 of 5

On or about August 2, 1979, I received a telephone call from Senator Daniel K. Inouye’s Washi…

Roger Daniels • Feb. 1, 2008

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Japanese Americans in Colorado

Japanese Americans have a long and complex history in Colorado, and their story features struggles …

Daryl J. Maeda • Jan. 30, 2008

Journal Entry #79: "Poverty Sucks"

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

Neal Yamamoto • Jan. 27, 2008

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