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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “'Terms From St. Albans and Lipton...” Check back every weekend …
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Read part 2 >> Playing the sanshin and singing traditional Okinawan songs were also instrumental in Uchināguchi being passed on in the immigrant communities. Even in …
Read Part 10 >> Arriving in Toronto When we got to Toronto, we finally felt released and free from jail to restart our lives. We felt really …
Read Part 4 >> Growing Up Nisei In Pre-WW2 Vancouver I remember playing war games with made in Japan toy wooden knives and rifles. In Vancouver I …
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Read Part 1 >> Remembering ‘Okasan’ and ‘Otosan’ My mother, Jun Ogawa was 8 years younger than Dad. She was born a Buddhist and was forever …
Aikido, reading, and learning Japanese are the main ways I try to understand the complicated cartography of being Nikkei. I’m now enrolled in the beginner …
In the Northern woods of Minnesota the call of a loon echoes on the lake. The wind rustles through a forest of birch trees. And …
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "Made in Japan! (Part IV)" Check back every weekend for …
Read part 3 >>4.5 Non-NikkeiIn the 1980s the Japan economy underwent a significant growth that allowed many Japanese to become world travelers and adventurers. Most …
Read part 2 >> 4.2 Nisei from early immigrants I interviewed only one individual who was born in Colombia from one of the 1929-1935 arrivers. …
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