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Miki Hayakawa: A Life and Legacy of Art and Resilience — Part 2

Read Part 1 Challenges of Anti-Japanese Sentiment: Navigating a Hostile Landscape As Hayakawa’…

Masako Hashigami Shinn • Nov. 21, 2024

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Bon Odori in the American Concentration Camps — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Manzanar The Obon festival at the Manzanar concentration camp in 1943 opened with …

Wynn Kiyama • June 27, 2024

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Utah Judicial Giant Raymond Uno Has Died at 93

Incarcerated as a boy in Heart Mountain, he also served as JACL national president. Raymond Sonj…

Pacific Citizen • April 9, 2024

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Eugenia “Jeanie” Kashima, First Topaz Baby

She was the first baby born at the Topaz Concentration Camp in central Utah. The hospital was not c…

Edna Horiuchi • June 6, 2023

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Appreciating Wat Misaka

Appropriately, as the National Basketball Association (NBA) celebrates its 75th anniversary, it inc…

Chris Komai • Feb. 7, 2022

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Yoshiko Uchida's Remarkable—and Underappreciated—Literary Career

I have long been a fan of Yoshiko Uchida, a Berkeley-based writer best known for her children’s and…

Brian Niiya • Dec. 3, 2021

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The Highflying Artistry of Miné Okubo

A whimsical drawing by Miné Okubo portrays a family and dog adrift in a hot air balloon over down…

Edna Horiuchi • Nov. 12, 2021

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The 48-Star American Flags travel to Heart Mountain, Topaz, and Honolulu

On July 5, 2021, I flew down early in the morning from San Jose for a flag signing event at the Gar…

Johnny Cepeda Gogo • Oct. 26, 2021

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Behind the Art of Miné Okubo

How appropriate that on the 75th Anniversary of Miné Okubo’s pioneering graphic memoir, Citizen 136…

Sharon Yamato • Aug. 26, 2021

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The Power of Place: James Hatsuaki Wakasa and the Persistence of Memory

Part 5: Epilogue—The Persistence of Memory

The monument stone, toppled, perhaps face-down in the dirt, is a witness to the honor fellow incarc…

Jeff Burton +1 • July 11, 2021

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