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A little over a year ago, the painter Venancio Shinki Huamán, one of the great names of Peruvian ar…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Dec. 14, 2017

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Takashi - Part 2

Read part 1 >> Labor lawyers When he was fired from the metallurgical factory, Takashi consu…

Gaby Oshiro • Dec. 11, 2017

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Feijoada?

I never imagined that feijoada could be something disgusting in a person's eyes. But the reacti…

Hudson Okada • Dec. 6, 2017

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Takashi - Part 1

On the night of April 21, 1977, fourteen armed men dressed in civilian clothes invaded the law offi…

Gaby Oshiro • Dec. 4, 2017

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Walking (and Flying) Thousands of Miles in My Father’s Geta

If Dad were alive today, I think he would have been simultaneously embarrassed and proud that somet…

Michael Goro Takeuchi • Dec. 1, 2017

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In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon

Chapter 5 — The Struggle Against Exclusion

A series of exclusionsNow getting used to itI spend each day farming Honda Fugetsu1 While bui…

Eiichiro Azuma • Nov. 20, 2017

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In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon

Chapter 4 — Japanese Immigrant Families and Community Development

“Japan is such a small island country…. What is the use of returning to such a place…

Eiichiro Azuma • Nov. 13, 2017

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Roots: Shared Stories of Mexican Nikkei

“It is never too late to investigate the roots. Not to live from the longing for the past, but to u…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Nov. 3, 2017

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‘Historical portrait’ adeptly conveys Nikkei’s lifestory

One of my favorite songs by country singer Hank Williams, Jr. — whose political and social …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Oct. 20, 2017

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How we celebrate obon at home

TANABATA My memories as a child are of Tanabata Day. Very early, we were preparing with my father a…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • Oct. 11, 2017

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Venancio Shinki: father, nisei and artist - Part 1