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From the Far East to the Old West: Chinese and Japanese Settlers in Montana

The word "settlers" evokes images of wagon trains from the East rolling over the Great Plains. But settlers also arrived from the other East--Far East. In 1870, Chinese made up ten percent of Montana's territorial population. And at the turn of the…

Slow Burn

Articles from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on the Japanese community in the wake of the Pearl Harbor bombing

Japanese 1902 law grad finally honored

99 years after Japanese American Takuji Yamashita was refused admission to the Washington state Bar Association because of his race, the state Supreme Court granted him that honor posthumously.