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Japanese schoolgirl fashions and subcultures have sprung up, burned out, mutated, and evolved into a pop culture phenomenon gone global from Gwen Stefani's "Harajuku Girls" to Gothic Lolita-fueled manga and the deadly schoolgirl in Kill Bill. It's no…

Article about Japanese in California driving across bridges being stopped amd searched for explosives.

Chicalo (?) Shioshi, a grocery owner in Portland, Or, bought $13,500 worth of war bonds prior to leaving for an assembly center. This money was from profits he made operating the grocery store with his brother Sam.

Photo of a man and two women waving and smiling through the windows of a bus headed for the Manzanar camp in the Owens Valley of California.

Smith Troy, Attorney General , announced that Japanese aliens could be paid social security benefits provided they have resided in the continental United States on and ever since June 17, 1940.

Traces differences in the view of relationships of individuals to one another and to society to historical traditions of Japan.

From the 1892 work the Book of Delightful and Strange Designs, Being One Hundred Fascimile Illustrations of the art of the Japanese stencil-Cutter

Article about the Pike Place Market and the Japanese still working there after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many of the Japanese are aliens and have their stalls in the names of their children, who are U.S. citizens.