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Mysterious tombs banned in Japan: Their secrets finally revealed
While in Japan these mysterious ancestral monuments are off-limits to the general public, scientists are able to study them a little more closely thanks to Google Earth. As reported by the Belgian ...
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Solemn monument to Japanese American WWII detainees lists more than 125,000 names
As long as you had one drop of Japanese blood in you, the government told you you didn’t belong,” Williams said. The Irei project was inspired by stone Buddhist monuments called Ireitōs that ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II
To reckon with this injustice, the Irei Project: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration was launched in 2019. This community nonprofit project was originally incubated at ...