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Stepping into the Past: Behind the Scenes of The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i

As a Hawai‘i-born Yonsei filmmaker, I’ve always been deeply interested in films about the Asian American experience. In 2009, I was asked by ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #2 — Nikkei+ ~ Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race ~

4-Sei What? That’s Mixed Up

At home, I speak Japanese. At school, I speak English. And at times, I speak both. The two languages are thrown in a verbal potpourri ...

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TOMI-TALK: The Character of the Nisei Soldier

My name is Delia Tomino Nakayama and I wrote the English column “Tomi-Talk” for San Francisco Japantown’s Hokubei Mainichi newspaper for approximately 10 years ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #1 — ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

Farm Food

I didn’t eat much Japanese food growing up. Born hapa Yonsei of a second generation German American mother and third generation Japanese American father ...

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About Hatsumi... with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 3 of 3

Read part 2 >> Is it important to preserve Japanese Canadian cultural centers and institutions for future generations? Critically. The Japanese Canadian and Japanese American community ...

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About Hatsumi... with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 2 of 3

Read part 1 >> It seems to me that the film honours Nisei but is aimed mostly at Yonsei. Did you have this intention?Absolutely. Besides ...

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About Hatsumi... with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3

“An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our ...

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Future Festival: Mayu Takasaki Brings Us The Powell Street Festival

It was only supposed to be a one shot deal. Now it is Vancouver’s longest running ethnic festival. And it is at the epicentre ...

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Yonsei Study Abroad

And then my professor asked, “What frustrates you about Japan?”

My Japanese professor recently assigned a short essay in which we had to compare life in United States to life in Japan. Specifically, she wanted ...

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Journal Entry #5/21/2011: "Are We Still Here?..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "The End is Here (Maybe)" Check back every weekend ...