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More Japanese Americans Receive Honorary Degrees From California Colleges

June 2, 2010 by Gann Matsuda 2 Comments

Several campuses in the California State University system along with a number of California Community Colleges held commencement ceremonies recently in which former Japanese American students who were forced to leave their respective campuses due to their forced relocation from the West Coast and imprisonment in American concentration camps during World War II received honorary degrees. Read more of this post

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