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The Search for Truth: Piercing Three Layers of Deception
For years I have wanted to write about my family and ancestors to preserve stories of the struggl…
Alden M. Hayashi • Feb. 8, 2023
Toru Matsumoto: The New York Years
My recent Discover Nikkei article on Tsuyoshi Matsumoto has prompted interest from readers in oth…
Greg Robinson • Dec. 13, 2017
FBI Searches and Arrests: Imperial Valley, 1941–1942
Thirteen-year-old Tatsuo Asamen did not yet have a driver’s license but he nonetheless drove …
Tim Asamen • Sept. 1, 2016
1940s
1942
ABC list
arrests (detention)
California
communities
enemy aliens
generations
immigrants
immigration
Imperial Valley
imprisonment
Issei
Japan
leadership
migration
Nisei
noncitizens
persons
searches and seizures
Southern California
Tujunga
Tuna Canyon Detention Station
United States
World War II
World War II camps
1940s
1942
ABC list
arrests (detention)
California
communities
enemy aliens
generations
immigrants
immigration
Imperial Valley
imprisonment
Issei
Japan
leadership
migration
Nisei
noncitizens
persons
searches and seizures
Southern California
Tujunga
Tuna Canyon Detention Station
United States
World War II
World War II camps
Q&A with Heidi Kim, editor of Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story
Heidi Kim is a writer, literary scholar, and editor of the new book, Taken from the Paradise Isle…
Darryl Mori • Jan. 6, 2016
Journalist Yasutaro Soga’s Detention on Angel Island During World War II
Japanese immigrants were arrested by the FBI on both the mainland U.S. and the islands of the Terri…
Grant Din • May 14, 2015
Angel Island Was One of Eight Detention Centers for Otokichi Ozaki
Ozaki was born November 3, 1904 in Kochi-ken, Japan, and came to Hawaiˋi on April 24, 1917. Otokich…
Grant Din • April 27, 2015
Angel Island (Calif.)
California
Family Torn Apart (book)
Fort Sill internment camp
generations
Hawaii
Hawaii Island
immigrants
immigration
imprisonment
incarceration
Issei
Japan
Japanese Americans
Kilauea (Hawaii)
Kilauea Military Camp
Kilauea Military Detention Camp
migration
Oklahoma
Otokichi Ozaki
United States
U.S. Army internment camps
U.S. National Park Service (organization)
World War II
World War II camps
Angel Island (Calif.)
California
Family Torn Apart (book)
Fort Sill internment camp
generations
Hawaii
Hawaii Island
immigrants
immigration
imprisonment
incarceration
Issei
Japan
Japanese Americans
Kilauea (Hawaii)
Kilauea Military Camp
Kilauea Military Detention Camp
migration
Oklahoma
Otokichi Ozaki
United States
U.S. Army internment camps
U.S. National Park Service (organization)
World War II
World War II camps
Mantsuchi and Sojuro Nakamura: Japanese Immigrant Farmers in California’s Central Valley
Mantsuchi Nakamura was born on February 27, 1877 in Hiroamachi, a small village in Yamaguchi-ken …
Grant Din • April 15, 2015
Alien Land Law of 1913 (Calif.)
alien land laws
Angel Island (Calif.)
California
Fort McDowell/Angel Island temporary detention center
Fresno
immigration
imprisonment
incarceration
Japanese Americans
land tenure
law
Reedley
Sharp Park internment camp
temporary detention centers
United States
U.S. National Park Service (organization)
World War II
World War II camps
Alien Land Law of 1913 (Calif.)
alien land laws
Angel Island (Calif.)
California
Fort McDowell/Angel Island temporary detention center
Fresno
immigration
imprisonment
incarceration
Japanese Americans
land tenure
law
Reedley
Sharp Park internment camp
temporary detention centers
United States
U.S. National Park Service (organization)
World War II
World War II camps
The Hoshidas’ Journeys Through Angel Island during World War II
George Yoshio Hoshida was arrested and detained on February 6, 1942. Information in his file at the…
Grant Din • April 6, 2015
Angel Island (Calif.)
Arkansas
artists
California
concentration camps
generations
George Hoshida
Hawaii
Hawaii Island
immigrants
immigration
imprisonment
incarceration
Issei
Japan
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum (organization)
Jerome concentration camp
Kilauea (volcano)
migration
National Archives and Records Administration
United States
World War II
World War II camps
Angel Island (Calif.)
Arkansas
artists
California
concentration camps
generations
George Hoshida
Hawaii
Hawaii Island
immigrants
immigration
imprisonment
incarceration
Issei
Japan
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum (organization)
Jerome concentration camp
Kilauea (volcano)
migration
National Archives and Records Administration
United States
World War II
World War II camps
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
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
The Japanese in Peru: Lessons for the Justice Department 70 years later*
Seventy years ago this week, 425 men from California entered a detention camp in Santa Fe, New Mexi…
Neil H. Simon • April 11, 2012