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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Remembrance

Upon this 80th anniversary since the signing of E.O. 9066 during WWII that led to the family sepa…

Rey Fukuda Salinas +4 • Feb. 17, 2022

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Greer Nakadegawa-Lee Kurt Yokoyama-Ikeda literature Noriko Nakada poetry Rey Fukuda Salinas

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A Silver Star Story

Less than a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the 100th Infantry Battalion …

Thomas M. Nishi • Nov. 11, 2021

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442nd Regimental Combat Team armed forces families fathers medals military decorations retired military personnel Silver Star (medal) United States Army veterans World War II

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Shinji Maeda, One-eyed Pilot, to Fly Around the World

Shinji Maeda, founder of Aero Zypangu Project who calls himself a “one-eyed pilot,” dep…

Misa Murohashi • July 28, 2021

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Aero Zypangu Project generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration piloting postwar Shin-Issei Shinji Maeda United States World War II

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Ten Days of Cleanup

Chapter Eight—Zip A Dee Doo Dah

I couldn’t believe it, but we could now see the back of the storage unit. Well, at least one …

Naomi Hirahara • July 4, 2021

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fiction Motown Records music Suzee Ikeda (fictitious character)

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Onigiri: from manga and anime to the history of Japanese immigration

The word onigiri , even to those familiar with Japanese food, is catchy. It has magnet, hook. It w…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • July 2, 2021

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Gerardo Higa Arakaki Gustavo Barreda Fudimoto Japanese Peruvians Peru Watshoi TV

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Jun Yoneda, working to promote Japanese vegetables in the United States

The Great East Japan Earthquake was a turning point Jun Yoneda is the CEO of Food's Style USA, …

Keiko Fukuda • March 22, 2021

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farms food Jun Yoneda Santouka (restaurant) vegetables

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Gifts from Jichan and Bachan

Gifts from Japan

Jichan and Bachan brought back many beautiful gifts from their trips to Japan. They ordered lovely,…

Susan Yamamura • Sept. 16, 2020

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awards charity gifts Japan Japanese Americans medals Order of the Rising Sun

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Tetsuo Okamoto, a hero of Brazilian swimming: A miracle born from Japan-Brazil exchange

First medal in swimming at the 1st Helsinki Olympics

Nisei swimmer Tetsuo Okamoto (born 1932 - died 2007) brought the first Olympic medal to both Brazil…

Masayuki Fukasawa • June 22, 2020

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athletics Brazil Finland Helsinki medals Olympics São Paulo sports swimming Tetsuo Okamoto

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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba

Part 4: Employment with the US Occupation Forces

Soon after moving to Japan Tak found work with the US occupation forces. While it included room and…

Stan Kirk • March 30, 2020

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Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) Haneda Air Base (Japan) interpreters linguists U.S. Occupation Army

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Book Review: The Rise & Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law

Japanese American Nisei, born in the incarceration camps have launched the Tsuru (origami cranes)…

Maryka Omatsu • Feb. 14, 2020

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Emergency Detention Act generations imprisonment incarceration Internal Security Act of 1950 Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Canadians Nisei

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