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Our neighbors to the North: The Japanese Canadian Internment Experience

Summary of a Japanese Canadian Internment Camp Tour that includes personal memories related by some of the tour participants.

World Trade Center was Designed by Seattle Nisei

Brief biography of architect, Minoru Yamasak, his most important buildings and a few details about obtaining the World Trade Center project. Also notes some of the honors awarded during his lifetime.

Norman Y. Mineta Gets his Wish for Secretary of Transportation Under Bush

Brief biography off Norman Mineta on his nomination for Secretary of Transportation of George W. Bush.

At 82, Yuki Sato will get her degree

The oldest graduate of the UW class of 2001, Yuki Sato lived through WWII ias an internee, raised a son by herself after her husband died and took 19 years to complete the requirements for her graduation summa cum laude.

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.

Hirabayashi Attends Kiosk Unveiling Ceremony

Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site dedicated a new interpretive kiosk that tells the history of the former federal honor camp.