Emily PanJun 1, 2021Obon Festival: An Oral HistoryThis is a summary of the Obon Festival that took place on July 31, 1965 at the San Luis Obispo Veterans' Memorial Hall. Obon is an...
Emily PanMay 31, 2021Oral History by Kofuji Eto FukunagaThis is a summary of the oral history by Kofuji Eto Fukunaga, about her father's life story. Her father, Tameji Eto, was born and raised...
Emily PanJul 13, 2020Honoring the PastJapanese Farmers (Photo Courtesy of Richard Waller Family Archives) The mark left by Japanese Americans can be seen all over the country,...
Emily PanJul 12, 2020Haruo Hayashi After Executive Order 9066Before Pearl Harbor In 1918, Haruo Hayashi's father, Yeiji Hayashi, immigrated to the U.S. from Japan by going through South America and...
Emily PanJul 10, 2020Japanese Field Workers at Waller Seed CompanyVideo Courtesy of Richard Waller Family Archives Story The Waller Seed Company's story begins over 100 years ago when Lionel Duncuff...
Emily PanJul 9, 2020Life After Pearl Harbor for the Nagano FamilyNagano Family (Photo Courtesy of History Center of San Luis Obispo County) The Nagano family had been living in Morro Bay since 1917, but...
Emily PanJul 5, 2020Life in a Japanese Detention Camp and The Kind Mr. WilkinsonExpensive maple dressers, love seats, dining room sets, and bedsteads, all imported from Japan, filled the homes of many Japanese...
Emily PanJul 5, 2020He Lost His Wife to the Spanish Flu; Umekichi Tanaka's Fascinating StoryA True Immigrant Born in Japan in March of 1872, Umekichi Tanaka was a true immigrant, having landed in Mexico in the early 1900s. While...
Emily PanJul 4, 2020The Matsuura Family and the Japanese Children's HomeHow the Japanese Children's Home Started The Matsuura Family's story begins during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919, similar to the...
Emily PanJul 1, 2020A Racist View of the Japanese during World War IIGila River Detention Camp in Arizona (National Archives) During World War II, the head of Japanese households in America were taken away...
Emily PanJul 1, 2020The Minami StoryMinami family (Image Source here) Yaemon Minami: 1880 - he is born in the village of Wakayama Japan 1905 - he arrives in San Francisco...
Emily PanJun 30, 2020Japantown - San Luis ObispoJapantown in San Luis Obispo (Image source here) Japantown in San Luis Obispo: One block long on Higuera Street Between South and French...
Emily PanJun 29, 2020Japanese Immigration to Arroyo GrandeOverview Japanese Picture Brides (National Archives) Many Japanese people immigrated to Arroyo Grande in the 20th Century. Many of them...
Emily PanJun 27, 2020The Struggle Japanese Immigrants Faced: Take EtoThese are quotes from Grace Shibata, Take Eto's daughter, which protrays the struggle Japanese Immigrants faced: when coming to the...
Emily PanJun 27, 2020Take Eto's Story During and After World War II, Told by her DaughterBelow is a retelling of Take Eto's life during and after World War II. To learn more about her life before World War II, click here. On...
Emily PanJun 27, 2020Take Eto's Story up to World War II, Told by her DaughterThis is the story of Take Eto, a Japanese Immigrant who came to the United States at the age of 19, told from the perspective of Grace...