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This Album contains illustrations, photographs and explaination of what I remember of Benkyodo's production of fortune cookies after WWII.
This is a supplement to the two-part essay, "Japanese American Fortune Cookie," I wrote for the Discover Nikkei Journal.
The rough drawings are mine as I best recall what I witnessed in the late-40s …
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Sharon Yamato is a writer and filmmaker in Los Angeles who has produced and directed several films on the Japanese American incarceration, including Out of Infamy, A Flicker in Eternity, and Moving Walls, for which she wrote a book by the same title. She is currently working on a documentary on attorney and civil rights leader Wayne M. Collins. As a writer, she co-wrote Jive Bomber: A Sentimental Journey, has written articles for the Los Angeles Times, and is currently a columnist for The Rafu Shimpo. She has served as a consultant for the Japanese American National Museum, Go For Broke National Education Center, and has conducted oral history interviews for Densho in Seattle.