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Kin was Much More than Kind: The Japanese Student Who Transformed Maryville

Kin Takahashi, a Japanese student at Maryville College in Eastern Tennessee at the turn of the 20th century, attracted nationwide attention for his achievements on ...

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Hastings Park Detention Centre

Read Part 1 >> During the Second World War, George Doi and his parents and siblings were imprisoned in an internment camp at Bay Farm in ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Created in 1919: "Just Give Me a Genie..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Cartoon Accessories I Wish I Owned in Real Life ...

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Setsuko Asano - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> So how did your father get this job right after camp? He was a journalist like I said, and very good in ...

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Eating Tofu Sparks Food Memories

TORONTO — The other day I experienced a food delight. Yup, with my gohan (steamed rice), there was nice cold tofu cut up in small blocks ...

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Escobar: the City of Flowers — The 90th anniversary of Japanese immigration (as of 2019) and rediscovery of my ancestry

Located 50 kilometers north of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, Escobar is known as “the city of flowers.”1 A flower festival is held ...

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Posh Writings on Prisons in the West: The New Yorker’s Take on Japanese American Incarceration

In the wake of the Los Angeles Times’s recent self-reflection on the place of racism in its past, it is worth considering how mainstream ...

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Power of Our Stories

Michelle Kumata, A Japanese-American Artist with Brazilian Ancestral Roots

Seattle native Michelle Kumata’s artistic journey has taken her across the country to New York and across the hemisphere to Brazil, not only to ...

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Banished from our homes: Family moved to Slocan internment camp

During World war II, George Doi and his parents and siblings were imprisoned in an internment camp at Bay Farm in Slocan. After they were ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #3 or 4 or 5 Digits: "Oops! Damn it!..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Stupid Blunders in Art - or ‘Silly Drawing Mistakes I ...