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The Class of 2016 graduating from Minato Gakuen was congratulated once in San Diego in mid-March an…

Rio Imamura • June 1, 2016

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Japanese Community in the Amazon

Part 6: Tracing the history of Castanha Japanese Language School

The locked door is opened and we enter, and it's a little chilly. The electricity is off, but t…

Asako Sakamoto • May 16, 2016

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An Endangered Custom

I am a Sansei Nikkei, 35 years old, born and raised in São Paulo. During childhood and adole…

Henrique Minatogawa • April 29, 2016

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Japanese: The culture behind a language

Studying a language is a way to learn about the culture of a town or a country. And to know the anc…

Javier García Wong-Kit • April 27, 2016

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The Japanese Language in Peruvian Speech

Languages crossed national borders well before globalization and today, in any part of the world,…

Javier García Wong-Kit +1 • April 15, 2016

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Being a Brazilian Nikkei: yesterday and today

From childhood to adulthood, I can say that as a Brazilian Nikkei I lived and saw some aspects of c…

Tatiana Maebuchi • Feb. 11, 2016

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Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum

Nao Magami

When Tokyo native Nao Magami was a student at California State University in the 1970s, he wondered…

The Rafu Shimpo • Jan. 11, 2016

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Sharing Memories for the Future of Nihonmachi

There had, for decades, been many Japanese signs and Japanese was spoken by local merchant and visi…

The North American Post • Dec. 17, 2015

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Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum

Hitoshi Sameshima

Hitoshi Sameshima was born in Pasadena in 1921 to parents from Kagoshima, Japan. He was a junior at…

The Rafu Shimpo • Dec. 14, 2015

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Japanese society in the Amazon jungle

The unique students of Japanese language schools

I was dispatched as a senior Japanese language education volunteer to the Western Amazon Japan-Braz…

Toshimi Tsuruta • Sept. 28, 2015

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