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Caleb Foote: The Friend of the Outcasts—Part 2
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In November 1943—before his release from prison—Foote published his second and most …
Jonathan van Harmelen • April 7, 2025
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A Tulare Memorial Project Sheds New Light on a Little Known WWII Incarceration Site
In 2017, I drove down Highway 99, hoping to stop at all of the temporary detention facilities, know…
Koji Lau-Ozawa • March 19, 2025
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The Nikkei community of Cuba
In Cuba there is a long history of descendants of Japanese citizens, and this places them within th…
Lidia Antonia Sánchez Fujishiro • Dec. 6, 2024
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Revisiting the Canon: A Review of Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung's anthology The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
In 2022, I received an email from my friend Frank Abe, informing me that he and Floyd Cheung had …
Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 21, 2024
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Mikami Cultivation: Remembering a Pocket of Japanese American History
Despite its relative youth, the award-winning Mikami Vineyards has been involved in the wine indu…
Lincoln Der • July 15, 2024
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Broken Promise—A Hawaii World War II Incarceration Story
Back in 2018, I walked the somber halls of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washingto…
Dan Nakasone • Feb. 13, 2024
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Power of Our Stories
New Podcast Series Explores the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration— Q&A with the Oral History Center’s Shanna Farrell
When oral historian Shanna Farrell began interviewing descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerate…
Anne Brice • Feb. 9, 2024
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No. 42 Japanese Australians during the war - Reading "Records of the Internment of Japanese Australians"
It is well known that with the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japanese and Japanese-Americans in the …
Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 12, 2024
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A Circus in Tulare: The Story of Congressman Alfred Elliott and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans — Part 2
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The next task on Elliott’s political agenda was to extend the border of the exclu…
Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 9, 2024
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A Circus in Tulare: The Story of Congressman Alfred Elliott and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans — Part 1
As part of my ongoing dissertation research on Congress and the wartime incarceration of Japanese A…
Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 8, 2024
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