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My grandmother Kazuko Kuwabara passed away recently, and I can’t help but feel that a piece o…

Karen Yoshiko Matsuoka • July 28, 2017

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Don't make the same mistake, be curious and ask

We are three or four Nikkei in the class. The history teacher asks us if we have any relatives who …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • April 5, 2017

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The Japanese Peruvian Community of Chicago

On a warm spring day last year, members of the Japanese Peruvian community filled the pews of the C…

Ryan Masaaki Yokota • July 21, 2016

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Preserving our Japanese Canadian History & Heritage

The Centennial of 1977 celebrating the arrival of Manzo Nagano, the first Japanese to land in Canad…

Frank Kamiya • May 24, 2016

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Documentarians Mary McDonald and Thomas Mazawa: A Neglected but Necessary Chapter About Strandees in the Japanese American Story

“The general term strandees, as applied to American citizens of Japanese ancestry, refers t…

Edward Yoshida • June 12, 2015

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Thread of Life: Strength, Survival, and a Singer Sewing Machine

“Objects have the longest memories of all; beneath their stillness they are alive with the …

Sharon Yamato • April 9, 2015

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Goldfish on Wintersburg Avenue Part 2 - The Living Jewels of the Furuta Gold Fish Farm

Read Part 1 >> Did you ever wonder why goldfish and koi ponds have been a long tradi…

Mary Adams Urashima • Dec. 19, 2012

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Goldfish on Wintersburg Avenue - Part 1

One of the 1982 oral histories recalling Wintersburg’s past was conducted with Mr. Clarence I…

Mary Adams Urashima • Dec. 12, 2012

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Seven Arrows Student Creates DVD with Uncle’s Story of Hiroshima

Cole Kawana, a sixth grader at Seven Arrows School, recorded an oral history of his great-uncle, Ar…

Sue Pascoe • Jan. 5, 2011

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Stories of Students Coming to Japan - Migration Research by Members of the Migration Research Group

第9回　ある台湾人女性の日本留学体験－許秋槎のライフヒストリー－

はじめに　　1920年代から30年代にかけて、日本の統治下であった台湾から多くの若者が日本本土に留学した。いわゆる内地留学である。専門分野は多岐にわたっているが、特に実業と医学関係が多かった。193…

Chieko Shirota • March 2, 2011

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