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Read Part 1 >> Sharing stories, photos, and gifts Junichi-sama brought us to a room he’d specially prepared for our meeting, with pictures of his …
*The below is an update of Shey's family history, which was written in 2021. The email header read, “I’ve found your family.” I think I …
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This past May my senior prom was held at the Santa Anita Park race track. I dressed up, took pictures with my friends and felt …
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Read Part 1 >> Chance Encounter in Tokyo At age 16, I traveled to Japan with a group of Hawai‘i boys to train at the …
In my childhood home in Roseville, California, we had a room we called “the den.” It was not the formal living room, where we had …
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My grandfather, Wakaji Matsumoto, traveled across the Pacific Ocean to help his father in a foreign land, but he returned to his native Japan as …
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For whatever “academic inadequacies” the fledgling ethnic studies was accused of back in the early 1970s, what did the institutional establishments of higher education expect …
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Mitch Homma, a 3rd generation Japanese American, grew up and still lives in Southern California. He has long been interested in Japanese and Japanese American …
This article is a follow-up to the writer’s original “Living in South Los Angeles — Today as a Japanese American” story. This story further explores …
In my family, we never told stories about the past. No one talked about what it was like to come to the United States from …
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