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The Little Immigrant — Part 1: When the Wind Calls

My father, Masao Nakachi, was born in Motobu, Okinawa. He migrated to Peru very young. He only wen…

Graciela Nakachi Morimoto • Dec. 4, 2023

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The Nakashima Process Book: A New Book By Mira Nakashima, The Daughter of Famed Woodworker George Nakashima

“Instead of a long-running and bloody battle with nature, to dominate her, we can walk in…

Tai Bickhard • Dec. 4, 2023

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The Kawamoto-Wipala Farm in Leland, Washington: A Farm for the Ages — Part 5

Read Part 4 >> Because of his injury, Joe decided he needed another line of work in addition…

Pamela A. Okano • Dec. 3, 2023

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Written in '34: "The Bizzaro Version..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 2, 2023

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Camp Survivor Recalls Killings at Manzanar

Jim Morita a concentration camp survivor of World War II was old enough at the time to see the im…

John Sammon • Dec. 1, 2023

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Japanese Companies Active in Brazil Today

Part 5: Toyobo Brazil attracts attention with its biological pesticides

In the fifth episode, we spoke with Yasuyoshi Fujii, President of Toyobo Brazil. In 1953, Japane…

Tomoko Oura • Dec. 1, 2023

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Nikkei View

Interpreting Lost in Translation 20 years later

I get it. I understand. Traveling to someplace you’ve never been, where the culture and langu…

Gil Asakawa • Nov. 30, 2023

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Ayumi Takenaka: “Even though we don’t have an exact definition of Nikkei cuisine, its origins are in Peru”

“What is Nikkei cuisine?” seems like a simple question, but beneath it is a complex def…

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato • Nov. 29, 2023

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Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi—Heads or Tails?

Writer’s note: Back in 2014 when I worked at University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa, …

Lois Kajiwara • Nov. 28, 2023

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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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