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    For Some Japanese Americans, Border Separations Are Déjà Vu

    The reports from the border this week sent a collective shudder through many Japanese American communities around the country.
    by Karen Grigsby Bates Jun 20, 2018 2 minutes
    Central American asylum seekers, including a Honduran girl, 2, and her mother, are taken into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

    Third grade teacher Tony Osumi says he, like a lot of Americans, watched the recent news from the Southern US border with growing dismay. The images and sounds of wailing children being pulled from their tearful parents' arms and taken away to temporary shelters made him wince—and reminded him of the first day of school for children who hadn't been before.

    "It's hard enough when parents drop off kids for

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