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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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Brazil business economics Japanese business enterprises management São Paulo

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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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stereotypes

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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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An American Dream (opera) imprisonment incarceration opera World War II camps

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The Kawamoto-Wipala Farm in Leland Washington: A Farm for the Ages — Part 4

Read Part 3 >> The War A PROJECT FARM was being started at the camp, so Joe volunteered to …

Pamela A. Okano • Nov. 26, 2023

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #First Appeared in 1940: "A Wild Hare..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Nov. 25, 2023

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Home Leaver: A Japanese American Search for Belonging

Chapter 8—The Way Home

Yayoi and I walked across a university campus admiring its historic gate, patinaed statues, and p…

Lon Kurashige • Nov. 24, 2023

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On Nikkei

Episode 40: The story of a Japanese doctor in Australia during wartime

Detention Centers, Institutions for Disease Control, and Wavering Feelings It is well known that at…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 24, 2023

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Australia fiction Japanese World War II camps

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Sow in Japan, harvest in Peru

Jorge Vargas Tsuruda's first experience in Japan was amazing. He was a teenager (still in schoo…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Nov. 23, 2023

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