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It is incredible to imagine that there had been a staggering 43 Japantowns throughout the nation at…

Sakura Kato • Aug. 11, 2014

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This is What It Means to Say Hanami in Seattle

Each time I’ve tried to write about hanami in Seattle, there’s something that makes me …

Tamiko Nimura • April 30, 2014

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A Bloomin' Idiot

A beautiful dream...

Raymond Nakamura • Sept. 18, 2013

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2012 was a good year for Denver’s Japanese and Japanese American community

This was a good year for Japanese and Japanese Americans in Colorado. A lot of the credit goes to I…

Gil Asakawa • Dec. 31, 2012

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Memorial for Colo. Gov. Ralph Carr dedicated

Ralph Carr, the man who served as governor of Colorado at the start of World War II, had been large…

Gil Asakawa • Dec. 30, 2010

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The Japanese Press in Peru - Part 3

Read Part 2 >>>For almost a decade there were no Japanese-language newspapers circulating …

Alejandro Sakuda • Oct. 4, 2010

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on Where the Trees Take Me

I'm a city girl...actually, more of a suburbanite. I need certain comforts around me—clean to…

Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda • April 25, 2008

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Sakura: Beautiful Flowering Trees of Japan

The cherry blossom, known as sakura, is the national flower of Japan. Different from the fruit-bear…

Leslie Yamaguchi +1 • April 20, 2007

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八島太郎さんの桜島

桜島の油絵を土産に貰い、その額縁を注文に行った店先で八島太郎さんに初めてお目にかかった。東京オリンピックの頃で、それからは中学20期先輩のお宅を訪ねたり、食事だ、一杯だの骨董屋冷やかしまでした嬉しい…

Edward Toru Horikiri • May 26, 2014

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Dekasegi chileno y el grupo Sakura

En 1990 llega a Chile la noticia de que Japón ha decidido devolverle la mano a Améric…

Ariel Takeda • Sept. 24, 2010

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