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Syuji Suzuki
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ボリビア移民と日系アメリカ人の歴史のアマチュア研究。草の根の国際交流と自費出版。愛と平和と協同。Amateur researcher about Japanese immigrants. Love, peace and collaboration.
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Syuji Suzuki @syujisuzuki.bsky.social · Dec 22
「ボリビアへの旅　ある移民の記録」。1950年代にボリビアへ移民したある日本人からの聞き書き。昭和の激動の時代を生きた男の破天荒なストーリーです。
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syujisuzuki.bsky.social
Sumo wrestler from Ukraine is very strong now in Japan. His name is Aoniahiki. Great! We love Aonishiki.
igorsushko.bsky.social Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · Oct 20
🇯🇵🇺🇦 Japan: Sumo wrestler from Ukraine, Aonishiki defeated his opponent with stunning technique.
21-year old Danylo Yavhusishyn is from Vinnytsia.
ウクライナ出身の安青錦がものすごい技を見せた!
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
12万人を超える日系アメリカ人が強制収容所に入れられた、その直接的なきっかけになったのは日本軍の真珠湾攻撃でした。その一つトパーズ収容所は、恐ろしく広大な乾燥した土地にありました。いまも有用な植物一つ育たない茫漠たる場所です。
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Topaz Japanese American Internment Camp Museum
This photo of the military police compound was taken from the water tower that was across the road on the north east area of the Topaz camp. However, the photo has been reversed. To see the true...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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ボリビアで大統領選挙が行われ、20年間続いた左派政権に終止符が打たれ、中道政権が誕生しました。政治経済の混乱は収まっていくのかどうか。
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Bolivia election: Centrist Rodrigo Paz elected in shift to the right
Rodrigo Paz's win shows Bolivians want change, but he faces economic challenges after almost 20 years of socialist rule.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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日本の陶器修復技術の金継ぎが米国で注目されていることに驚きます。昨年ユタ州の小学校でスピーチをした時も先生が生徒たちに これを教えていました。この映画は 日系アメリカ人の物語です。https://youtu.be/KmlJ7M9xwB0?feature=shared
KINTSUKUROI- OFFICIAL TRAILER
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March 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Reintroducing this legislation to Congress will ensure that all Americans learn from this history and recognize Fred Korematsu’s important contributions. He stood against racism and xenophobia, not just for his generation but for those to come.

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JACL celebrates introduction of two bills meant to honor Japanese civil rights advocate
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) has joined 77 other organizations to honor community advocate Fred T. Korematsu on what would have been his 106th birthday on Jan. 30 by celebrating the…
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March 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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ソルトレイクシティに住む日系アメリカ人2世のリリーさんが、自分がインタビューを受けたという、アマチ強制収容所についてのドキュメンタリービデオのアドレスを送ってきてくれました。見たかったのですが、残念ながら日本からはこのビデオにアクセスできないようです。
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Amache: An American Injustice
Japanese Americans are incarcerated in Colorado during WW2, their civil rights violated.
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February 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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So which is it—are we erasing camp history, or are we repeating camp history? *sarcasm*

As a direct descendant of Japanese American wartime prisoners, I am furious. #nikkei #stoprepeatinghistory #japaneseamerican @altnps.bsky.social
colincarlson.bsky.social Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jan 31
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-

Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
stone text inlay: HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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美しい彫り物です。これは日系アメリカ人のフジタミノル氏が、戦時中の日系人強制収容所にいたときに作った、ブックエンドだそうです。蛇の造形があしらわれています。当時収容所内ではこうした工芸品がたくさん作られていました。
jamuseum.bsky.social Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · Jan 29
Happy Lunar New Year! 🐍❤️ The Year of the Snake is said to be a transformative time. The snake is known for being wise, intuitive, clever, and mysterious.

These wooden bookends were carved out of pine by Minoru Fujita while incarcerated in Manzanar concentration camp, depicting a snake on a cactus.
Photo of two wooden bookends that show a snake crawling upward on a cactus.
January 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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カリフォルニアの農業は、戦前戦後にそこへ移住した日本人がかなりの部分を担い、また高い農業技術を持っていたからこそその生産を支えられたという見方があります。いまそこでトランプによって生活を脅かされようとしている人たち。日系人たちが強制収容所へ入れられた、アメリカの間違った歴史とオーバーラップして見えます。
justfara.bsky.social justfara @justfara.bsky.social · Jan 22
this is one of their busiest harvesting times of the year. But following the frightening news that immigrants were getting swept up while refueling their trucks or picking up some breakfast before starting their day, 25% of citrus workers stayed home from work.
January 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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tamikonimura.bsky.social
Note that these were all misleading categories.
#nikkei #japaneseamerican #stoprepeatinghistory
footnotesinhistory.bsky.social Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · Jan 20
#OTD in 1943, an editorial in the Seattle Times covers the "three distinct classes" of Japanese Americans. These include the "silent and submissive" Japanese, the American Nisei, and Japanese "loyal to Tokyo." The segregation of this group to other camps will begin within the year.
🗃 #skystorians
The Seattle Times, January 20, 1943
January 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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ボリビアでも、韓国あるいは米国と似たような政治状況になっています。次期大統領選への再出馬を狙うエボ・モラレス元大統領が、十代少女への性的関与の疑いで、裁判所から逮捕命令が出ました。

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Bolivian judge orders arrest of ex-president Morales in teen sex abuse case
A Bolivian judge on Friday ordered the arrest of the country's former leader Evo Morales over his alleged relationship while in office with a 15-year-old girl with whom prosecutors say he later father...
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January 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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This picture is from my Russian friend in Chita. His grandmother's house was built by the Japanese prisoner of WW2. Actually my friend's father was prisoned there, and he had suicide after backing to Japan. It's misery. But I'm glad to be friends with him. We should not repeat this kind of history.
January 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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チェ・ゲバラがボリビアの村イゲラで虐殺されたのは1967年のことです。その虐殺を行ったのはボリビアのレンジャー部隊でした。当時の大統領はバリエントスでしたが、その虐殺の指示はアメリカのCIAからのものだったと言われています。そのレンジャー部隊を率いていた隊長が、当時のサンファン日本人移住地へ混乱を治めるためにやってきたのだと、海協連の現地所長から聞いたことがあります。当時この移住地は日本人とボリビア人のあいだで対立が起きて治安がひどく悪化していたからです。歴史は複雑です。それは私の伯父がここへ入植して１０年あまりのことでした。
January 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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ボリビアに移住した伯父が1990年ごろに帰国した時、お土産に現地で採取した蘭の苗を持ち帰ってきた。それは当然違法なわけで。空港の検疫検査のところで見つかって没収されるはずの物だったが。検疫所が行列で混んでいて、伯父の一人前の入国者が何やら検査に手間取っていた。それで伯父は「こっちは急いでるんだから」と検査官にけしかけて、そのままボリビア産の蘭の苗を持ったまま、通過してしまったらしい。いかにも伯父らしいエピソードで。今ならそんなことはとても無理だと思うが、当時はそれが通ってしまったのである。けれども、そのもらった蘭の苗をわが家で育ててみたけれど、結局気候が合わずにすぐに枯れてしまったのだ。
January 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Thank you. I visited Topaz last Autumn. And I was moved by many exhibitions in the museum.
mrbill30560.bsky.social mrbill30560 @mrbill30560.bsky.social · Nov 18

Chiura Obata, Regulations , 1943, watercolor on paper, 18 x12.5",Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Estate of Chiura Obata, 2020.72.3
Obata born 11/18/1885 Okayama-ken, Japan: interned in the Tarafon and Topaz Internment Camps during WW2, he organized art classes
January 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
Great. I'm moved very much by this painting. Thank you.
mlobelart.bsky.social Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · Nov 21
Finally, there are objects that might serve as warnings about the nation's current political trajectory, like this delicate ink drawing by Chiura Obata of imprisoned Japanese Americans transplanting trees at the Topaz internment camp in Utah during World War II
A small ink drawing of figures transplating a tall tree, in a desolate camp landscape
January 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
I also visited Topaz last Autumn. Yes. This is an incredible place.
kymicrafts.bsky.social KYmi Photography & Crafts @kymicrafts.bsky.social · Jan 7
Camp Topaz, Utah. Fall 2016. Camp Topaz was one of several internment camps set up during WWII for Japanese-Americans. It is about 15 miles west of Delta, Utah. This view is looking NW from the edge of the camp.

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#photography #landscapephotography #Utah #Topaz
January 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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日本が真珠湾攻撃を仕掛けたのはアメリカにそれを仕向けられたという説があるし、また真珠湾攻撃そのものを肯定的に評価する日本人も一部にはいますが、しかしながら、もしこの事件自体がなければ12万人もの日系アメリカ人が強制収容所に入れられることはありませんでした。そのことを知っている日本人はとても少ないのが残念です。
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 7
On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.

For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
January 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
We need to talk about this history to our descendants. Forever.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 7
On this date in 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the imperial forces of Japan. The loss of life and destruction was horrific, and it pulled the U.S. into the war.

For Japanese Americans, it was a terrifying time. Overnight, we became the “enemy within” because we were of Japanese descent. /1
January 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
Very unfortunately. So my young friend in Lapaz moved to the US last year.
January 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
Yes. Unfortunately.
glaeldys.bsky.social Glaeldys González @glaeldys.bsky.social · Dec 6
A standoff between President Luis Arce and former President Evo Morales has plunged Bolivia into turmoil, aggravating economic grievances and fuelling social unrest.

🧵 to explain what’s happening
Supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales block a road linking Cochabamba with La Paz, near the village of Khora, 20 km from Cochabamba, Bolivia, on October 28, 2024. Former Bolivian president Evo Morales is being investigated for rape, human trafficking and human smuggling over his alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old member of his political youth guard in 2015. Supporters of Morales have protested by blocking major roads throughout the country for two weeks. Morales said gunmen tried to kill him Sunday in a hail of bullets, an attack he blamed on the current president. AIZAR RALDES / AFP
January 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Great landscape!
alycearmstrong.bsky.social Journaling Happiness @alycearmstrong.bsky.social · Jan 5
📷 Sunset in Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flats. A mass of salt that touched the horizon and hung off the edge, like you had reached the end of the earth. Uyuni, Bolivia ~ Yannis Pavlis #photography
January 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
So lovely.
January 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
Oh my God.
January 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
syujisuzuki.bsky.social
Lovely.
tcorraini.bsky.social Tracey ✌🏼🧡 @tcorraini.bsky.social · Dec 11
The side streets of La Paz, Bolivia - 1989

When I shot this, I was buying a love potion over at the witch’s market and the bottles attracted me…stacked all accordingly where each sold her wares. 🇧🇴

#Bolivia #LaPaz #life #photography #travel #witchsky #adventure #market #explore
Sepia toned photo of a few Bolivian ladies with their backs to me standing in front of stacks of bottles and satchels of the herbs and potions being sold at the witches market
January 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM