@rmyokota
Ryan Masaaki Yokota is a Yonsei/Shin-Nisei Japanese/Okinawan American who currently lives in Chicago, IL. He holds a PhD in East Asian History from the University of Chicago and an MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA. His recently completed dissertation is titled "Okinawan Postwar Nationalism(s): Independence, Autonomy, and Indigenousness, 1945-2008." His previous academic writings have been on Okinawan Peruvians in Los Angeles, the history of Japanese and Okinawans in Cuba, and an interview with Pat Sumi, seminal figure in the Asian American Movement.
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JASC Partners With Alphawood Gallery on “Then They Came For Me;” Largest JA Incarceration Exhibit Ever in Midwest
On June 29th, 2017, the Alphawood Gallery, in partnership with the Japanese American Service Commit…
Feb. 1, 2018
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Chicago Community Commemorates 2017 Day of Remembrance and 75 Years Since E.O. 9066; Over 700 People Attend Weekend of Arts and Youth Programming
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May 2, 2017
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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
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Welcome back to this month’s edition of Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column. As we commemorate the 75…
April 20, 2017
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Facing Forward: Mixed-Race Japanese Americans in Chicago
“So, one of the questions that mixed people get asked a lot is ‘What are you?’” stated Laura Kina, …
Feb. 9, 2017
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Japanese American Chick Sexers in Chicago - Part 2
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Sept. 29, 2016
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Japanese American Chick Sexers in Chicago - Part 1
At modern-day 821 North La Salle Street, in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, few people tod…
Sept. 28, 2016
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The Japanese Peruvian Community of Chicago
On a warm spring day last year, members of the Japanese Peruvian community filled the pews of the C…
July 21, 2016
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Art Shibayama
Chicago
communities
farms
Grace Shimizu
Illinois
Japanese Latin Americans
Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project
Japanese Peruvians
life interviews
New Jersey
oral histories
Peru
postwar
Redress movement
resettlements
Seabrook Farms
Seiichi Higashide
United States
World War II
World War II camps
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Follow the story of “Rocky” Yamanaka, one of the few remaining Nisei who remembers life in Chicago …
Oct. 17, 2013
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