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First Impressions: Early Reviews of John Okada’s No-No Boy

One intriguing window into the world of John Okada’s landmark 1957 novel No-No Boy is the s…

Greg Robinson • June 7, 2018

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book reviews John Okada literature No-No Boy (book) reviews

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Reading Japanese American Literature

17th 『Japan Boy』

Among Japanese Americans, there are people called "Kibei" (returning Americans). They wer…

Ryusuke Kawai • Oct. 27, 2017

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16th "Ganbatte - 60 Year Journey of a Japanese American Revolutionary"

A life of fighting for conviction For second and third generation Japanese Americans, the word &qu…

Ryusuke Kawai • Oct. 13, 2017

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Ganbatte: Sixty-year Struggle of a Kibei Worker (book) Karl G. Yoneda literature

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13th "Wild Meat and Brie Burger"

Hawaii has the oldest history of Japanese immigration in the United States. The people who live the…

Ryusuke Kawai • Aug. 25, 2017

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generations Hawaii literature Lois-Ann Yamanaka pidgin English pidgin languages Sansei United States Wild Meat and The Bully Burgers (book)

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12th "Twinkle Twinkle" and "Seven Moons"

The story takes place in the 1950s and 1960s in southern Georgia and central Arkansas, and explores…

Ryusuke Kawai • Aug. 11, 2017

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Arkansas book reviews Cynthia Kadohata fiction Georgia Kira-Kira (book) literature novels reviews The Floating World (book) United States

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Episode 11: "That Day at the Panama Hotel"

Seattle has an old Japanese community. What was once Japantown is now called the International Dist…

Ryusuke Kawai • July 28, 2017

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book reviews Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (book) Jamie Ford literature Panama Hotel reviews Seattle United States Washington

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History of Japanese Postwar Immigration: A Los Angeles doctor publishes an autobiographical novel about his experience of abuse and his journey to the United States

The story is set in Tokyo just after the war. Jiro walks five kilometers to school every day to at…

Shigeharu Higashi • July 25, 2017

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Reading Japanese American Literature

10th "Light of Everyday Life"

Jay Rubin, a Japanese literature scholar and English translator who is also known for his English …

Ryusuke Kawai • July 14, 2017

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Jay Rubin literature reviews The Sun Gods (book)

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Not Just a Single Man: Christopher Isherwood's Nisei Connections

Christopher Isherwood’s short novel A Single Man, which has won increased sales and attenti…

Greg Robinson • June 26, 2017

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Reading Japanese American Literature

9th "Garden of Kabul"

As we get older, we all start to look back on our past. We wonder where we came from and why we be…

Ryusuke Kawai • June 23, 2017

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