What is Nikkei?

Nikkei are people spread out around the world who share a common cultural past. Photo: Amache Grade School (Mitch Homma).

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Nima-kai Community

Join the Discover Nikkei global community, where our Nima connect and share! Our Nima-kai community includes people around the world interested in learning about and sharing the Nikkei experience. Meet some of our Nima:

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Welcome to the new Discover Nikkei!

A whole new look, many new features, improved usability, and tools to help our global community connect, not only with us, but with each other.

We’ve launched the new Discover Nikkei in a “beta” version. Thanks to those who provided their feedback while in our development phase, it’s easier and more intuitive to use. Some of their suggestions are already incorporated into the site, while others will be developed in the future.

With so many major changes and new functionality, you may come across some error messages or things that don’t function quite right. There are still many new features that we plan to add over the next few months and beyond. Your feedback is very important. Email us at editor@DiscoverNikkei.org to report any problems or suggestions on how we can make this site more useful for you...or tell us what you like (it’s always nice to hear good things too!).

We hope that you find the new Discover Nikkei worth the wait!

- the Discover Nikkei Team

Welcome to the new Discover Nikkei!

We’ve made many major changes to the site so there may be things that don’t work quite right yet. Please email us to report any errors. Your feedback is also welcome!

Support this project

Discover Nikkei is a place to connect with others and share the Nikkei experience. To continue to sustain and grow this project, we need your help!

Ways to help >>

A project of the Japanese American National Museum

Major support by The Nippon Foundation

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