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Although certainly not an American labor historian per se, I am profoundly abashed that, notwiths…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 16, 2023

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Coming Home: My Family’s Journey to Ireichō

And what we see is our life moving like that along the dark edges of everything, headlights sweep…

Sharon Yamato • Aug. 15, 2023

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Exposing America’s “Secret Weapon” — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> With their service as linguists no longer classified, the MIS veterans’…

Drusilla Tanaka • Aug. 14, 2023

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Exposing America’s “Secret Weapon” — Part 1

My high school yearbook is a well-worn treasure. After leafing through it all these years, the bind…

Drusilla Tanaka • Aug. 13, 2023

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Journal Entry #6 More Noises: "Onomatopoeia Mania..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Aug. 12, 2023

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#34 Riki Ito, a female pioneer of America-mura: On a journey along the Japanese coastline③

Bring on the immigration fever In the previous article (No. 32) , "From Americamura in Shima C…

Ryusuke Kawai • Aug. 11, 2023

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Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage

To Be Nikkei

My obaachan was only seven years old when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. T…

Kayla Kamei • Aug. 11, 2023

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Layle Lane: Black Woman Educator and Defender of Japanese Americans

One crucial aspect of Nikkei history that has not received due recognition from community chronicle…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 10, 2023

African Americans Black people black women education Haiti Japanese Americans Layle Lane teachers teaching World War II

No More Euphemisms: My Mother Was a Hostage

Decades ago, when I was studying for my degree in journalism, I had an extremely tough professor. H…

Alden M. Hayashi • Aug. 9, 2023

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Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage

Jinsei no aki (Autumn of Life)

It’s the Year of the Rabbit and in October I will be 60 years old. My Okinawan grandparents w…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • Aug. 9, 2023

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