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Bay Area Japanese Americans Draw on WWII Trauma to Resist Deportation Threats
President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...
Eric Muller: The Japanese internment gives federal employees a way to resist
With radical policy shifts looming in Donald Trump’s new administration, many federal employees are surely debating whether ...
New Japanese American Museum of Oregon exhibit highlights lesser-known story of Angel Island
Along the back wall of the Japanese American Museum of Oregon’s new exhibition, Jensaku Makita’s story plays out. Makita was ...
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Exhibit on internment of Japanese Americans explores the trauma, tenacity in a dark moment in U.S. history
Many Japanese Americans freed from incarceration were ... It’s taken time for people from her parents’ generation to process the experience, Aono said. “I think for my parents and many ...
A Racist Purge Almost Destroyed My Family. Another One Is Coming.
If Trump issues his own order on Day 1, as he’s vowed, the first people could enter detention camps by February.
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Righting a wrong, name by name − monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned in WWII
The Aochis were among the nearly 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry who ... National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched in 2019. This community nonprofit project ...
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Oregon Swears In First Japanese American Lawmaker
Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American lawmaker. At a joint meeting of the Multnomah and Washington ...