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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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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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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