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The Little Match Girl — Debut Ballet Performer Yurino Niyama
From the very young age of three, Yurino Niyama has always known she wanted to be a ballet dancer. …

Ashley Valdes • Dec. 6, 2023

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ballet generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
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Power of Our Stories
In American Dream
There are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories. Historians, novelists, and artists o…

Esther Newman • Nov. 27, 2023

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An American Dream (opera) imprisonment incarceration opera World War II camps
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Sojin Kamiyama: The Man they called Sôjin
Among all the Japanese actors who graced Hollywood screens in the silent and early sound eras, perh…

Greg Robinson • July 12, 2023

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acting actors artists Chie Mita entertainers films generations Hollywood films immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration silent films Sojin Kamiyama theaters (building)
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Finding Forgiveness: Director Stafford Arima on Bringing the Award-Winning Memoir to the Stage
CALGARY — When author Mark Sakamoto’s memoir, Forgiveness: A Gift From My Grandparents,…

Kelly Fleck • March 21, 2023

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Alberta Arts Club Theatre Company biographies British Columbia Canada Cindy Mochizuki Forgiveness (book) Forgiveness (play) Hiro Kanagawa Japanese Canadians Mark Sakamoto memoirs prisoners prisoners of war Theatre Calgary Vancouver (B.C.) World War II
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My Name is Neal
Journal Entry #212° F: "I'm Melting!..."
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Sept. 10, 2022

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cartoonists cartoons heat wave humor weather
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Canadian Nikkei Artist
The Yume. Digital Dreams Art Project: Shifting Paradigms
The Yume. Digital Dreams art project The Yume. Digital Dreams art project launched by Julie Tamiko…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 5, 2022

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artists arts Canada dance drum films Japanese Canadians musicians performances performing arts photographers photography taiko theater Yume. Digital Dreams (project)
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Book Review: Not Yo’ Butterfly by Nobuko Miyamoto
“Growing up Asian in America, we had the songs of our ancestors, but we no longer understoo…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 25, 2022

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activism arts book reviews composers dance films generations Great Leap (organization) hapa multiculturalism music Nobuko Miyamoto performing arts racially mixed people reviews Sansei social action songwriters theater
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A Conversation With Aya Hashiguchi Clark on the Past, Present, and Future of Japanese American Theater
Given COVID-19 circumstances, the state of live theater in America is changing radically in 2020&nd…

Tamiko Nimura • Oct. 13, 2020

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acting actors artists Asian American theater Aya Hashiguchi Clark entertainers Japanese American theater producers Tacoma United States Washington
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Teru Shimada - a Japanese American Pioneer in Hollywood - Part 1
One of the great leading men of motion picture history was Sessue Hayakawa, whose magnetic good loo…

Greg Robinson • April 30, 2019

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acting actors Arizona artists arts concentration camps entertainers films performing arts Poston concentration camp Teru Shimada theater United States World War II World War II camps
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Teru Shimada - a Japanese American Pioneer in Hollywood - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> In summer 1945, while still confined at Poston, Teru Shimada was cast as a Fi…

Greg Robinson • April 30, 2019

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acting actors Arizona artists arts concentration camps entertainers films performing arts Poston concentration camp Teru Shimada theater United States World War II World War II camps
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