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The Liberdade back then is like a completely different world to me now. It was 1964, and I had just transferred to Roosevelt High School.Classes …
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Read Part 2 >>In December 1960, looking for a bigger home for their six kids, Yuri and Bill moved their family out to a new …
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Last year I was lucky enough to be invited to Japan and meet with other Nikkei (Japanese migrants and their descendants) from around the world. …
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Read Part 8 >> Walking a Fine Line In Born Free and Equal, Adams struggled to walk a fine line between advocating for the imprisoned …
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "Asian Expressionism?" Check back every weekend for subsequent entries...
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Read Part 1 >>As musical director Harry Inao cued up a recording of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” (“Background music provided by NWG**” as the program …
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Part 1 >> When we become adults, do we become too rational, and, [as a result] our imagination wanes?We cannot speak in generic terms; it …
As a child, Little Tokyo was my stomping grounds. My mom was a member of the Little Tokyo Library, and it felt like every other …
Saw it! I saw it, too! Saw it. Of course, I saw it, too.My heart skipped a beat the moment they met.Like in a dream, …
Read Part 1 >>Her life drastically changed the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. In President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s infamous words, “a date …
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