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\n Documentary film that chronicles the campaign that led to a 2021 postage stamp that pays tribute to Nisei soldiers. The film features the three Nisei women who began the campaign— Fusako \"Fusa\" Takahashi, Aiko Ogata King, and Chizuko \"Chiz\" Ohira—along with Sansei Wayne Osako—and includes interviews with Nisei veterans and family members of the women.\n

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\n Co-director Kaia Rose is a Washington, D.C., based filmmaker who is also the Multimedia Content Lead at Connnect4Climate, World Bank Group. In 2020, she made a short documentary film on the Fugetsu-Do sweet shop in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The other co-director, Robert Horsting, is an oral historian and filmmaker who recorded almost 300 oral histories with Japanese American veterans as part of the Go For Broke National Education Center's Hanashi Oral History Program.\n

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\n \n Stamp Our Story\n \n had its in-person premiere at the Japan Information and Culture Center in Washington, D.C., in July 2022 and subsequently screened in numerous festivals and community events.\n

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\n \n Authored by\n \n Brian Niiya\n \n \n
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\n Niiya, Brian\n
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\n Might also like\n \n \n Citizen Tanouye\n \n \n (2005);\n \n \n 442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity\n \n \n (2010);\n \n \n Honor Bound: A Personal Journey\n \n \n (1995)\n

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\n Official website:\n \n https://niseistamp.org/stamp-our-story-film/\n \n

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\n Co-director website:\n \n http://www.kaiarose.com/\n \n

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