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🇺🇸 In 1942, Juneau High School left an empty chair at graduation.
It wasn’t a mistake. It was for their missing valedictorian.
What happened next became one of Alaska’s most powerful stories of injustice, courage, and community.
Read the Tanaka family story 👉 https://tinyurl.com/2evzs2mc
#AlaskaHistory #Juneau #WWII #JapaneseAmericanHistory #NeverForget #Alaska #History

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 11

Densho: Building the Densho Digital Repository: Three Decades of Digital Preservation. “How did Densho’s digital archives begin, and how have they evolved over nearly three decades? Densho Archives Director Caitlin Oiye Coon traces the journey from the creation of Densho’s first ‘Digital Archive’ in 1998 to today’s ‘Densho Digital Repository,’ highlighting the people, technologies, and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/11/building-the-densho-digital-repository-three-decades-of-digital-preservation-densho/

Building the Densho Digital Repository: Three Decades of Digital Preservation (Densho)

Densho: Building the Densho Digital Repository: Three Decades of Digital Preservation. “How did Densho’s digital archives begin, and how have they evolved over nearly three decades? Densho Ar…

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose Feb 8

Stanford University: Newly digitized papers shed light on WWII internment. “Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an ‘extraordinary collection’ of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/08/stanford-university-newly-digitized-papers-shed-light-on-wwii-internment/

Stanford University: Newly digitized papers shed light on WWII internment

Stanford University: Newly digitized papers shed light on WWII internment. “Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an ‘extraordinary collection&#821…

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naura Dec 23

New book alert!

A few weeks ago I found out through Naomi Hirahara’s Facebook page that Silent Scars of Healing Hand was going to be reprinted.

Our copy just arrived today.

On the cover of the book is a painting of Topaz Hospital. Paul’s great aunts most likely worked there since they were nurses.

#JapaneseAmericanHistory
#NaomiHirahara
#TopazInternmentCamp

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Jul 18, 2025

AsAmNews: Denshō and Internet Archive to launch new collection next week. “On Wednesday, July 23, at noon (PST), Denshō and the Internet Archive will launch a new online collection of over 100 films that document the forced removal and incarceration of the Japanese Americans during World War II.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/asamnews-densho-and-internet-archive-to-launch-new-collection-next-week/

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RandyCaparoso.wineauthor Jan 28, 2025

Dorothea Lange is possibly America's most iconic photographer. Check out the dozens of photos I've posted on today's Lodi Wine page (https://www.lodiwine.com/blog/The-Japanese-American-experience-in-Lodi-and-California-documented-by-Dorothea-Lange) documenting the forced evacuation of some 120,000 Californians of Japanese ancestry (including Lodiians) in 1942-1944.
#DorotheaLange #LodiWineCountry #lodihistory #JapaneseAmericanHistory

The Japanese American experience in Lodi and California documented by Dorothea Lange

1942 photo by acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange: Old vine Lodi vineyard and home forcibly taken from Japanese American family. The single most famous photograph in the annals of Americana is undoubtedly that of the "Migrant Mother," taken in 1936 by Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). Not so famous are the few photos taken by Lange of Japanese American faces and farms in Lodi, for a brief time in 1942...

Lodi Winegrape Commission

Flipboard Art & Photo Desk Dec 12, 2024

James Hatsuaki Wakasa was shot dead in 1943, in Topaz, a concentration camp in Utah. Two friends erected a monument for him. In 2021, the Topaz Museum removed the stone and placed it in their museum, without the permission of survivors, descendants, or the Japanese American community. They damaged the monument, and left the site of Wakasa's murder unmarked, filling the hole in the ground with dirt. In his book, "The Afterlife is Letting Go," excerpted in LitHub, Brandon Shimoda writes about what it means to protect a 2,000 pound stone.

https://flip.it/5k6UYM

#Museums #Monuments #History @histodons #JapaneseAmericanHistory #Books @bookstodon

Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

The following is from the prologue to The Afterlife Is Letting Go by Brandon Shimoda. One evening, many years ago, but not so many years ago, a Japanese man, out for a walk in the American desert, …

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