July 2013
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A reflection on heroism
July 28, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
Twice Heroes: America’s Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea Written and photographed by Tom Graves. (San Francisco: Nassau & Witherspoon, 2013, 182 pp., $45, hardcover) Tom Graves’ photobook is the […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Yuriko Higa
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
Higa, Yuriko, 83, of San Jose passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family, on July 12, 2013. She was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan on April 3, 1930. Yuriko […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Sakaye Taguma
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
TAGUMA, SAKAYE, 82, passed away unexpectedly yet peacefully at her West Sacramento, Calif. home on July 16, 2013. The daughter of a pioneer missionary of the Tenrikyo Church in America, […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Kazu Oshima
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
Oshima, Kazu, 88, of San Mateo died at home on Monday, July 1st. He was born on July 12, 1924 in Watsonville, Calif., to Katsutaro and Kame Oshima. He attended […] READ MORE
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Lessons that transcend time
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
ICHIRO By Ryan Inzana (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2012, 288 pp., $19.99, hardcover) Ryan Inzana illustrates a coming-of-age graphic novel about identifying the gray areas of good […] READ MORE
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A lesson in embracing one’s identity
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
The Favorite Daughter Written and illustrated by Allen Say (New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013, $17.99, 32 pp., hardcover) I love Allen Say. This book, with its watercolor illustrations, […] READ MORE
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One man’s pursuit of his civil rights amid wartime hysteria
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
A Principled Stand: the Story of Hirabayashi v. United States By Gordon K. Hirabayashi, with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013, 232 pp., […] READ MORE
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A historical anthology on redress
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
NEGLECTED LEGACIES: Japanese American Women and the Redress/Reparations Movement Edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Special issue of “PAN-JAPAN: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora” Normal, Ill.: (Spring/Fall 2011: Volume […] READ MORE
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A stirring memoir of adolescent Manzanar stories weaved with senior hiking adventures
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
MANZANAR TO MOUNT WHITNEY: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker By Hank Umemoto (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday, Books 2013, 224 pp., $16.95, paperback) My first trip of many to […] READ MORE
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A fuller understanding of the complexity of WWII on Hawai‘i’s Nikkei community
July 25, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
Japanese Eyes, American Heart: Voices From the Home Front in World War II Hawaii (Vol. 2) Compiled by the Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board (Honolulu: Watermark Publishing, 2012, 232 pp., […] READ MORE
