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Anne Watanabe is a Japanese Canadian Yonsei and Shin-Issei born in the Midwest and raised on the East Coast and in Canada. She shares her experiences with intergenerational trauma and healing. Anne discusses the challenges of younger generations…

Julie Wernick and Janelle Flores are yonsei sisters via their maternal grandfather. Their great-grandfather, Kiyoshi Shimizu, initially settled in Portland, Oregon, where Julie and Janelle’s grandfather and his siblings were born and raised. During…

A nisei born in Los Angeles in 1935, Masao Yamaji was six years old when he, his parents, and three siblings were incarcerated at the Santa Anita racetrack and later sent by train to Rohwer, Arkansas. Too young to recall much from his pre-war life,…

Gordon Yoshikawa, a nisei who resettled in Cincinnati, OH after being released from incarceration, discusses his involvement with the Cincinnati chapter of the JACL from the 1960s to the present day, focusing primarily on his memories of the redress…