Nori Uyematsu


In this episode we connect with Nori Uyematsu to discuss his childhood on a farm in California in the 1930s and how everything changed for him and his family after Executive Order 9066. His family lost everything they had worked...

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Janice Munemitsu


In this episode we connect with Janice Munemitsu, author of the book The Kindness of Color. Janice shares the story of her families first arrival in California and how her father became an 8 year old land owner, and how...

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Gordon H. Chang


In this episode we connect with Gordon H. Chang Professor of History at Stanford University. We discuss his discover of a comic strip from 1943 that ran for eight weeks, depicting Superman in a Japanese Incarceration Camp and discovering subversive...

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Sylvia Chong


In this episode we connect with Sylvia Chong, Professor of American Studies and Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of Virginia. We discuss the concept of Yellow Peril, or the fear and mistrust of Asian Americans from when they...

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Greg Robinson


In this episode we connect with Greg Robinson, author of the book Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road. As a professor of history at University of Quebec in Montreal, Greg shares about Canada's decision to incarcerate their Japanese citizens following...

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Stephanie Hinnershitz


In this episode we connect with Stephanie Hinnershitz, author of the book Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II. We discuss the work Japanese Americans did while incarcerated following Executive Order 9066. Many were tasked...

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