Category Archives: history

Seiwa-en Japanese Garden and a WWII Japanese Internment Memoir

Posted on September 8, 2019 by

Last weekend was our big annual Japanese Festival, where our small but mighty Japanese community and our many friends work together to showcase Japanese cultural traditions and talents. It’s impressive. The Missouri Botanical Garden has the largest Japanese garden in … Continue reading →

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Dream of the Water Children – a memoir of half worlds and unpleasant history

Posted on July 21, 2019 by

Fredrick Kakinami Cloyd is Black-Japanese, but actually he is Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and European from his mother’s side and black and Cherokee on his dad’s. He is Amerasian, a term Pearl Buck coined as she advocated for the many abandoned … Continue reading →

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D-Day and More: Keeping the Memories Alive

Posted on June 9, 2019 by

The 75th anniversary of D-Day brings up an important point: with the survivors of this heroic but tragic history disappearing every day, who will be left to tell their stories? The history books will give basic information, but it’s the … Continue reading →

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