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From Wilfred Hari to Yoshitaka Horiuchi: The career of an Expatriate Executive - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> The outbreak of the Pacific War would decisively shift the life of Wil…

Greg Robinson • Nov. 1, 2022

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Arizona authors California concentration camps Poston concentration camp postwar Japan Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps writers
Arizona authors California concentration camps Poston concentration camp postwar Japan Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps writers
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Reframing Japanese American Bitterness: A Partial Chronology
It is February 2022, and the 80th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 has just passe…

Tamiko Nimura • March 7, 2022

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incarcerees postwar World War II World War II camps
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Ruth Sato Reinhardt: From Chorus Girl to Jazz Momma - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> After 1940, Ruth Sato’s life was transformed, and she shifted her car…

Greg Robinson • Jan. 11, 2022

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Chicago Illinois jazz jazz clubs Jazz Ltd. (nightclub) music postwar Ruth Sato Reinhardt United States World War II
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Leland Inaba - Part 4
Read part 3 >> Now, jumping ahead to when the redress happened and the Civil Liberties Act w…

Emiko Tsuchida • Nov. 21, 2021

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dentists families postwar Redress movement World War II World War II camps
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Leland Inaba - Part 3
Read Part 2 >> And I meant to ask you before, was your mother working before you left for ca…

Emiko Tsuchida • Nov. 14, 2021

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Crystal City internment camp Crystal City (Texas) Department of Justice camps optometrists postwar Texas United States World War II World War II camps
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My school years at St. Joseph College and work at CIA
My move from the boonies of Shikoku to the Tokyo-Yokohama area took place in 1950 after I graduated…

Robert H. Kono • Sept. 19, 2021

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generations Japan Japanese Americans Kanagawa Prefecture Kibei Nisei postwar Sansei Tokyo (metropolis) Tokyo Prefecture World War II Yokohama
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The man who collected the records of the first generation: Following in the footsteps of Shinichi Kato
#20 In the footage shot in America
About a month after the atomic bombing, Kato Shinichi acted as an interpreter and guide for Dr. Mar…

Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 10, 2021

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atomic bomb survivors hibakusha Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture Japan postwar World War II
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The deep relationship between postwar immigration and war in Brazil as seen through personal histories
Brazil, which currently boasts the world's largest Japanese community at 2 million, also began …

Masayuki Fukasawa • July 26, 2021

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Amazon River Region Brazil China immigration Japan Manchuria Okinawa Prefecture Peru postwar Russia Siberia war World War II
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My schooling in postwar Japan as a Sansei teenager
Along with my Issei father and ailing Nisei mother, I repatriated to war-torn Japan in 1946. We set…

Robert H. Kono • May 23, 2021

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Ehime Prefecture generations Japan Japanese Americans Kibei Nisei postwar repatriation Sansei Shikoku World War II
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The Return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945 and the Challenges of Starting Over
In late October 1945, Kimiko Keimi and her thirteen-year-old son Harold “Hal” Keimi lef…

Kristen Hayashi • March 26, 2021

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Japanese Americans postwar World War II
Japanese Americans postwar World War II
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