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Lily Yuri Tsurumaki - Part 1
“One day, a classmate saw my name is Lily Oki and she was surprised she says, ‘You kn…

Emiko Tsuchida • June 11, 2018

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airlines California generations Japan Airlines (firm) Japanese Americans Kibei life interviews Nisei oral histories Pomona temporary detention center temporary detention centers United States World War II World War II camps
airlines California generations Japan Airlines (firm) Japanese Americans Kibei life interviews Nisei oral histories Pomona temporary detention center temporary detention centers United States World War II World War II camps
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We Should Listen
I had the extraordinary experience of getting to know a Nisei solider before he died in 2013. His…

Sandra Vea • Sept. 26, 2017

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armed forces generations Japan life interviews Nisei oral histories retired military personnel veterans World War II
armed forces generations Japan life interviews Nisei oral histories retired military personnel veterans World War II
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Louisiana’s Camp Livingston and Internment: A Hidden History
Ask any Louisianan about the internment that occurred in the state during World War II and you will…

Hayley Johnson +1 • Sept. 14, 2017

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Camp Livingston imprisonment incarceration life interviews Louisiana oral histories United States World War II World War II camps
Camp Livingston imprisonment incarceration life interviews Louisiana oral histories United States World War II World War II camps
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My Family Secret
My grandmother Kazuko Kuwabara passed away recently, and I can’t help but feel that a piece o…

Karen Yoshiko Matsuoka • July 28, 2017

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civil rights draft resisters imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans life interviews oral histories resisters United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara World War II
civil rights draft resisters imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans life interviews oral histories resisters United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara World War II
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Don't make the same mistake, be curious and ask
We are three or four Nikkei in the class. The history teacher asks us if we have any relatives who …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • April 5, 2017

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deportation families life interviews migration oral histories Peru World War II
deportation families life interviews migration oral histories Peru World War II
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The Japanese Peruvian Community of Chicago
On a warm spring day last year, members of the Japanese Peruvian community filled the pews of the C…

Ryan Masaaki Yokota • July 21, 2016

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Art Shibayama Chicago communities farms Grace Shimizu Illinois Japanese Latin Americans Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project Japanese Peruvians life interviews New Jersey oral histories Peru postwar Redress movement resettlements Seabrook Farms Seiichi Higashide United States World War II World War II camps
Art Shibayama Chicago communities farms Grace Shimizu Illinois Japanese Latin Americans Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project Japanese Peruvians life interviews New Jersey oral histories Peru postwar Redress movement resettlements Seabrook Farms Seiichi Higashide United States World War II World War II camps
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Preserving our Japanese Canadian History & Heritage
The Centennial of 1977 celebrating the arrival of Manzo Nagano, the first Japanese to land in Canad…

Frank Kamiya • May 24, 2016

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Canada communities Frank Kamiya Grace Eiko Thomson heritage Japanese Canadian National Museum Japanese Canadians life interviews Nikkei Images (journal) oral histories
Canada communities Frank Kamiya Grace Eiko Thomson heritage Japanese Canadian National Museum Japanese Canadians life interviews Nikkei Images (journal) oral histories
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Documentarians Mary McDonald and Thomas Mazawa: A Neglected but Necessary Chapter About Strandees in the Japanese American Story
“The general term strandees, as applied to American citizens of Japanese ancestry, refers t…

Edward Yoshida • June 12, 2015

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documentaries filmmakers films generations Heishikan Japan Japanese Americans Kibei life interviews Mary McDonald Mary Tomita Nisei Nisei Stories of Wartime Japan (book) oral histories Peter Sano repatriation schools strandees Thomas Mazawa World War II
documentaries filmmakers films generations Heishikan Japan Japanese Americans Kibei life interviews Mary McDonald Mary Tomita Nisei Nisei Stories of Wartime Japan (book) oral histories Peter Sano repatriation schools strandees Thomas Mazawa World War II
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Thread of Life: Strength, Survival, and a Singer Sewing Machine
“Objects have the longest memories of all; beneath their stillness they are alive with the …

Sharon Yamato • April 9, 2015

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bombings bombs Japan life interviews oral histories seamstresses sewing sewing machines ships Tatsuta Maru (ship) World War II
bombings bombs Japan life interviews oral histories seamstresses sewing sewing machines ships Tatsuta Maru (ship) World War II
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Goldfish on Wintersburg Avenue Part 2 - The Living Jewels of the Furuta Gold Fish Farm
Read Part 1 >>   Did you ever wonder why goldfish and koi ponds have been a long tradi…

Mary Adams Urashima • Dec. 19, 2012

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California C.M. Furuta Gold Fish Farm farms fishes goldfish goldfish farms Huntington Beach koi life interviews oral histories Southern California United States Wintersburg Wintersburg Japanese Presbyterian Mission World War II camps
California C.M. Furuta Gold Fish Farm farms fishes goldfish goldfish farms Huntington Beach koi life interviews oral histories Southern California United States Wintersburg Wintersburg Japanese Presbyterian Mission World War II camps
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