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Eagles of Heart Mountain, Bradford Pearson Uses Football As a ‘Trojan Horse’
In Eagles of Heart Mountain, football is all but pretext. The book, journalist Bradford Pearson’s…
Nov. 5, 2021
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Interview with a Nikkei forager: mushroom hunting with Sayuri Shinya
On still-damp, foggy mornings after the rain has cleared, Sayuri Shinya and her husband drive from …
July 16, 2019
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“Thirty Minutes Over Oregon” Introduces Children to the Complexity of War and Friendship
When we talk about World War II, it’s often in terms of major milestones: the racist incarceration …
March 26, 2019
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Author Andrea Tsurumi on kindness and the role of uncertainty in art and cultural identity - Part 2
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Monnier: How do you describe your identity when you describe yourself? What words d…
Feb. 12, 2019
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Author Andrea Tsurumi on kindness and the role of uncertainty in art and cultural identity - Part 1
In the undersea world of Andrea Tsurumi’s new picture book, Crab Cake, the community has a steady r…
Feb. 11, 2019
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Ben Furuta, the Air Force Academy’s First Cadet of Color
I was conscious of being different, but only in the sense of looking different.
—Ben Furuta
B…
May 31, 2018
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Full Disclosure: How My Ambiguous Looks Mean I’m Constantly Coming Out as Biracial
Some years ago, an old friend stopped in L.A. for her summer job, driving across the country in a c…
Sept. 12, 2017
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A Conversation with Nancy Oda, President of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition
Nancy Oda was very happily retired when she learned about Tuna Canyon.
“Very happily retired,” she…
April 8, 2017
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Japanese American National Museum
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Nancy Kyoko Oda
Only the Oaks Remain
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Tujunga
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Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition (organization)
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California
displays
education
exhibitions
imprisonment
incarceration
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum (organization)
Nancy Kyoko Oda
Only the Oaks Remain
prison camps
Southern California
teachers
teaching
Tujunga
Tuna Canyon Detention Station
Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition (organization)
United States
World War II
World War II camps
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My Life with the Anime Nerds
Last month, I worked at Kinokuniya Bookstore’s booth at Anime Expo for the second year in a row. Fo…
Jan. 28, 2016
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