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Mean streets
January 1, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO VICE: AN AMERICAN REPORTER ON THE POLICE BEAT IN JAPAN By Jake Adelstein (New York: Pantheon, 2009, 335 pp., $26.00, hardcover) Chasing stories for the world’s biggest newspaper was […] READ MORE
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LOST: The disappearance of Lompoc’s Japanese
January 1, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
Vanished, Lompoc’s Japanese: Of One Hundred Families Only Two Returned By John V. McReynolds (Lompoc: Press Box Productions. 2010, 193 pp., $13.95, paperback) John McReynolds, a former sports writer for […] READ MORE
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Uncovering the only voluntary work camp for Japanese inmates
January 1, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
IMPRISONED IN PARADISE: JAPANESE INTERNEE ROAD WORKERS AT THE WORLD WAR II KOOSKIA INTERNMENT CAMP By Priscilla Wegars (Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 2010, 357 pp., $19.95, paperback) Most people […] READ MORE
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Comprehensive volume counters the notion of a welcoming nation
January 1, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
ANGEL ISLAND: IMMIGRANT GATEWAY TO AMERICA By Erika Lee and Judy Yung. (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2010, 432 pp., $27.95, hard cover) Erika Lee and Judy Yung, both […] READ MORE
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