In the early part of the 20th century Japanese American baseball teams originally formed partly because of racism—-Caucasian players would not allow Japanese Americans to participate in the Anglo ...

A year later, I started working on a thesis on Japanese American agriculture in the camps, and decided to interview a number of the Japanese American farmers who still worked in my area. As I was ...

In 2015, the U.S. Postal Service® and Japan Post jointly issue Gifts of Friendship, a sheet of stamps featuring beautiful images of flowering dogwood and flowering cherry trees. This issuance ...

During World War II the U.S. Government decided to lock up 120,000 mostly Japanese American citizens living along the West Coast for suspected disloyalty. Oshima’s family including his father William ...

Rinban Bob Oshita in his sermon talked about how the bombing personally affected him when he visited the Hiroshima Peace Park museum and saw the atrocities of artifacts and photos of the sufferings of ...

Thanks to the activism of Barbara Takei and Konrad Aderer’s film Resistance at Tule Lake, the story has become recognized. This week, I had the chance to interview teacher and activist Henry Kaku ...

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However, hard work and dedication eventually paid off. The business survived, helped by a particularly skillful CPA (accountant) who gave assistance. The business began turning a profit. Expansions ...

Searchable on Facebook under “Japanese Americans in the Produce-Floral Industry,” the site’s written declaration says it was set up to honor pioneer Japanese American growers who laid the foundations ...

The federal government changed the laws which had earlier restricted Japanese immigration to the U.S. to allow the new brides to immigrate. Some of the women came to the U.S. on their own to join ...

Morita said he was old enough to be well aware that what the government was doing to the prisoners was a great wrong. He recalled that in one case a Caucasian man promised to take care of property ...

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