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Manzanar Fishing Club?
How is it I only learn about this movie just as the last sneak preview is playing?
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keep moving
This photo is floating around the net today. I wish my great grandfather, who had a photo studio downtown, had taken this… He was probably in the camps by then,…
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Fort Minor – Kenji
You might not have heard of Fort Minor, it’s a side project of Mike Shinoda’s (lead man of Linkin Park). In 2005 they released their first (and to date, only)…
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$25 and a Train Ticket
You may have heard by now about Google’s partnership with LIFE magazine: 10 million photos recently released, most of which have never been seen by the public. You can check…
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High School as Prison
Yearbooks of Japanese-American high school students interned at Tule Lake. I can’t remember which of my relatives was at Tule Lake… (thx Junie)
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massively attacked
I laid down on my bed for a few minutes to watch this Massive Attack DVD that I brought from Japan. The beats were on and my mind went into…
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A Prison Camp Memoir
Excerpts from another great memoir over on the JPRI site: “The radio went dead. All the servants had long disappeared–stealing everything they could carry. I locked all the doors and…
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Famous Japanese Americans
This post actually started off as an update to my previous post because I had forgotten to mention one of my newest finds. Guy Kawasaki has started a blog: Let…
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Monkeys & Teak
There was a post on Mefi today that got me to thinking about zines. I’ve been in Japan for over 10 years so my access to them has basically been…
