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A Letter to My Community Urging Protection of Minidoka
Dear Japanese American Community, If I don’t already know you, I hope to meet you someday &m…

Erin Shigaki • March 19, 2023

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Idaho letters Minidoka (city) United States World War II camps
Idaho letters Minidoka (city) United States World War II camps
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A lonely longing for home - From the letters of Morikami Suketsugu, a Japanese immigrant in Florida
#28: Hundreds of correspondence so far
Morikami Sukeji, who came to America as a member of the Yamato Colony in South Florida and remained…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 13, 2020

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Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States Yamato Colony (Florida)
Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States Yamato Colony (Florida)
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A lonely longing for home - From the letters of Morikami Suketsugu, a Japanese immigrant in Florida
No. 27: Life without dreams is meaningless
Morikami Sukeji, who traveled to America as a member of the Yamato Colony in South Florida and rema…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 28, 2020

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Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States Yamato Colony (Florida)
Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States Yamato Colony (Florida)
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The Oda Boys
Sometime around 1932, Bachan went to the funeral of a family friend in Suisun with a big plate of h…

Ruth Sasaki • Aug. 8, 2019

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442nd Regimental Combat Team adoptions letters United States Army Victory Mail V-mail World War II
442nd Regimental Combat Team adoptions letters United States Army Victory Mail V-mail World War II
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“Letters to Memory” is a Sansei memoir of family, incarceration and Japanese American history
With the end of the Nisei generation upon us, their children, the Sansei, are sometimes fortunate e…

Ken Mochizuki • May 20, 2019

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book reviews concentration camps imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Karen Tei Yamashita Letters to Memory (book) reviews Topaz concentration camp United States Utah World War II camps
book reviews concentration camps imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Karen Tei Yamashita Letters to Memory (book) reviews Topaz concentration camp United States Utah World War II camps
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A lonely longing for home - From the letters of Morikami Suketsugu, a Japanese immigrant in Florida
Part 6: Talking to cats and reading Japanese books
Morikami Sukeji, who came to America as a member of the Yamato Colony in South Florida and stayed t…

Ryusuke Kawai • April 12, 2019

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Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States
Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States
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A lonely longing for home - From the letters of Morikami Suketsugu, a Japanese immigrant in Florida
Part 3: Small Friends
Morikami Sukeji, who came to America as a member of the Yamato Colony in South Florida and stayed t…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 22, 2019

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agriculture farming Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States Yamato Colony (Florida)
agriculture farming Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States Yamato Colony (Florida)
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A lonely longing for home - From the letters of Morikami Suketsugu, a Japanese immigrant in Florida
Part 2: Cold wave and traffic accidents
In the early 20th century, Yamato Colony, a Japanese village, appeared in southern Florida. Morikam…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 8, 2019

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agriculture farmers Florida generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan letters migration Sukeji Morikami United States Yamato Colony (Florida)
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Fathoming the ‘lessons and limits of history’
In his insightful Sept. 13, 2017 Christian Science Monitor review of Karen Tei Yamashita’s …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Sept. 12, 2018

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Karen Tei Yamashita Letters to Memory (book)
Karen Tei Yamashita Letters to Memory (book)
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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II
George Hishida – A Life in Photography Interrupted by World War II
George Mioya Hishida was born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1896 to a Christian missionary father who was…

Grant Din • March 26, 2015

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Angel Island (Calif.) California citizenship concentration camps Fresno generations George Hoshida George Mioya Hishida George Photography Studio immigrants immigration imprisonment incarceration Issei Japan Japanese Americans letters migration naturalization photographers photography repatriation Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
Angel Island (Calif.) California citizenship concentration camps Fresno generations George Hoshida George Mioya Hishida George Photography Studio immigrants immigration imprisonment incarceration Issei Japan Japanese Americans letters migration naturalization photographers photography repatriation Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
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