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Exploring Washi Jewelry With Reiko Nakano
Emily Hood • May 3, 2024
Andrew Masaru Sato: Discovering Roots through Aikido—Part 2
Erik Matsunaga • May 2, 2024
Part 13: MN Propolis: Committed to taste and health
Tomoko Oura • May 2, 2024
Andrew Masaru Sato: Discovering Roots through Aikido—Part 1
Erik Matsunaga • May 1, 2024
Author Leslie Shimotakahara's Novels Offer Literary Passageways to Places in the Past
Kelly Fleck • April 30, 2024
Japan and the U.S. Cotton Trade in the 1930s
Greg Robinson • April 29, 2024
Ai Fujimoto moved to the United States in 2011 with the goal of "bringing miso to the everyday American dining table."
Keiko Fukuda • April 29, 2024
Featured Stories
The Child of a Thousand Generations
Chanda Ishisaka • Nov. 24, 2014
The secret to living to 100 years old in good health - Yoshiaki Umezaki, a walking dictionary of immigration history - Part 1
Masayuki Fukasawa • April 11, 2023
Bisa AIKO and her 102nd birthday
Katsuo Higuchi • Feb. 17, 2023
Eriko Higa, born in Japan, raised in Bolivia, became a lawyer in the United States
Keiko Fukuda • April 24, 2023
The Chuo Gakuen School: The Seeds of Prestige for the Japanese Community in Mexico
Sergio Hernández Galindo • June 3, 2016
Tad Nakamura’s Art and Activism
Helen Yoshida • April 25, 2023
Series
My Name is Neal
Neal Yamamoto • Nov. 24, 2007 - May 4, 2024
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent.
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Amina Abuthahir +129 • Dec. 15, 2016 - April 18, 2024
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column is a space for the Nikkei community to share stories through diverse writings on culture, history, and personal experience. The column will feature a wide variety of poetic form and subject matter with themes that …
Dekasegi Story
Laura Honda-Hasegawa • June 18, 2012 - April 18, 2024
In 1988, I read a news article about dekasegi and had an idea: "This might be a good subject for a novel." But I never imagined that I would end up becoming the author of this novel... In 1990, I …
The Amazing Tashiro Family
Greg Robinson • Oct. 13, 2023 - April 12, 2024
This is the story of the Tashiro clan of Cincinnati, New England, North Carolina, and Seattle. Though oddly unheard of today, the Tashiros rank high in the category of diverse and accomplished Japanese American families, whose members distinguished themselves in …
Much Mahalos
Lee A. Tonouchi • Oct. 11, 2023 - March 29, 2024
In this series, acclaimed author "Da Pidgin Guerrilla" Lee A. Tonouchi uses the language of Hawai‘i Creole, a.k.a. Pidgin, to talk story with accomplished and up-and coming Japanese/Okinawan Americans from Hawai‘i. Interviewees discuss their passions, their triumphs, as well as their …
Excerpts from In Search of Hiroshi
Ana Iwataki +1 • March 3, 2024 - March 24, 2024
This series presents excerpts from Gene Oishi’s memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of his childhood wartime incarceration. In Search of Hiroshi was originally published in 1988 and has long …