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Black and White Negative Takeko Ishikawa and Yoshiko (Asaba) Mamiya, circa early 1930s. Yoshiko and Takeko were best friends. Yoshiko's family ran Sagamiya Confectionery store at 524 S. Main St. and she remembers frequently walking over to visit…

Black and White Negative of family on a farm.
The Takeda family on their farm in Auburn.

Black and White Negative of family on a farm.
The Takeda family on their farm in Auburn.

Although two boys grow up in vastly different times and locations, their lives intersect in more ways than one as they discover compassion, develop loyalty, and find renewal in the most surprising of places.

A child's perspective on the Japanese American experience of WWII.

"Adele 'Addie' Maine is returning to Dire, a Wyoming coal-mining town, forty years after the deadly events that nearly took her life and drove her away without a word to her husband. Years earlier: headed West to stay with her brother Tommy, a young…

In 1901, a twelve-year-old Japanese boy is shanghaied and serves as cabin boy aboard the bark Sindia, dealing with homesickness and hardships on the long and exciting journey from Kobe, Japan, to Ocean City, New Jersey.