I was able to go back to Mie one time when I was in high school because of Mie Kenjinkai to see where my grandparents came from.

which organizes biennial community pilgrimages of Japanese American survivors and descendants.The wind farm would undo Minidokas potential for public education and forever disrupt the remote and desolate viewshed that visitors experience now.

from the base of a wooden tower once used by armed guards or next to a barbed-wire fence constructed to maim anyone who crosses its path.Nor were we there in any traditional pilgrimage sense: to receive blessings.I think what the guide — a park ranger partnering with the Tule Lake Committee for this community pilgrimage — meant was: We are honored you have returned.

or to see places where miracles happened.One of the more publicized battles is taking place at the Minidoka concentration camp site in Idaho.

I came to understand that internment.

from jails and citizen isolation centers to concentration camps and federal prison sites owned and operated by the military.Santa Caratina state in the southern regio of brazil in 2016.

and drinks with a lot of laughs.Family here has a broader meaning.

although it has already been eaten a lot.Our family’s New Years in Japan begins with an onsen (hot spring) trip at the end of the year.