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Tying a Family Together: My Grandmother’s Wedding Obi
Growing up I was always fascinated by the blue trunk in our sunroom. When opened, it reeked of mo…

Caitlin Oiye Coon • April 23, 2024

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California Colorado concentration camps families generations grandmothers grandparents heirlooms Japanese Americans Kibei kimono Nisei parents Pinedale temporary detention center Seattle Tacoma temporary detention centers Tule Lake concentration camp Tule Lake Segregation Center United States Washington World War II camps
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“Little Benedict Arnolds in Skirts”: The Shitara Sisters’ Scandalous WWII Treason Trial
In late 1943, three Japanese American sisters helped two German prisoners of war escape from a sout…

Nina Nobuko Wallace • April 10, 2024

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Colorado Germans prisoners prisoners of war Shitara sisters United States
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How Do We Remember Japanese American History? A Descendant's Perspective
The following is adapted from a talk I gave at Plymouth Church in Seattle in February 2024. Good a…

Tamiko Nimura • April 4, 2024

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artists California concentration camps Tanforan temporary detention center temporary detention centers United States World War II camps
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Kimiko Fujita, a community leader who connects Japanese-Americans with the new Issei
"Maybe it's a good fit overseas." Kimiko Fujita has two faces. She is the business owner who has…

Keiko Fukuda • March 25, 2024

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California Kimiko Fujita music Orange County Southern California The Orange County Japanese American Association United States Yamaha Corporation
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Gratitude for Art Hansen—“A Gifted Mentor and Inspiration”
Among specialists in Japanese American history, few have made such an enduring contribution as Arth…

Greg Robinson +1 • March 18, 2024

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Arthur A. Hansen historians life interviews oral histories scholars
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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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Berkeley California From Generation to Generation (podcast) generational trauma healing identity imprisonment incarceration Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives (project) Japanese Americans Oral History Center (UC Berkeley) podcasts Shanna Farrell The Berkeley Remix (podcast) United States universities University of California, Berkeley World War II
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Kanon Shambora on the Making of Print Garden
Artist-in-residence Kanon Shambora used her time at Densho to explore the roots of Japanese America…

Kanon Shambora • Jan. 25, 2024

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agriculture art artist-in-residence programs artists Densho education immigrants immigration Japanese Americans Kanon Shambora migration teachers teaching World War II camps
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Nikkei film audiovisual creators
Today's world is a movie. Everyone consumes, through cinema, digital platforms and other media,…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Dec. 6, 2023

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documentaries films Kaori Flores Yonekura Peru producers
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Historian Arthur A. Hansen on his latest book, Manzanar Mosaic
Arthur Hansen has spent the past 50 years researching and writing about the World War II Japanese A…

Nancy Matsumoto • Oct. 26, 2023

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Arthur A. Hansen California concentration camps Elaine Black Yoneda Harry Y. Ueno Karl G. Yoneda life interviews Manzanar concentration camp Manzanar Mosaic (book) oral histories Sue Kunitomi Embrey Togo W. Tanaka United States World War II camps
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The JABA Legacy Project: Don Tamaki—A Bridge Between Communities—Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Vindicating Camp Survivors Tamaki felt that he and the rest of the legal tea…

Drew Yamamura • Oct. 6, 2023

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Donald K. Tamaki imprisonment incarceration Korematsu v. United States Redress movement
Donald K. Tamaki imprisonment incarceration Korematsu v. United States Redress movement
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