Faye Nakanishi Talks About the San Jose Buddhist Church Domitory

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Some people know that there was a hostel at the San Jose Buddhist Church, which housed many Japanese who came to this valley after leaving the Internment Camps. But how many people know that in the early 1920s, the Buddhist Church had a dormitory which housed Japanese children? The late Faye Nakanishi tells Jimi Yamaichi about her stay in the Buddihist Church dormitory, while her parents traveled throughout the state as migrant farm workers.