Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage

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Album of the Week

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Fortune Cookie Production at Benkyodo, San Francisco - ca 1914-1941 - WWII - 1946-1958

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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Sharony360 (California, United States)

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.

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