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Chiye Tomihiro is used to being interviewed. She testified before the Commission of Citizens (CWRIC…

Japanese American National Museum • April 21, 2014

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Journal Entry #12 Peers and an Alternate: "Courtroom Antics..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • April 19, 2014

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Triangle Boys

There was a bowling alley called Triangle Bowling Alley located at Beverly and Atlantic Blvd. in Ea…

Earnest Yutaka Masumoto • April 18, 2014

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Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration

Paraguay - Migration Historical Overview

The official beginning of Japanese immigration in Paraguay is traced back to 1936, when the first i…

Akemi Kikumura Yano • April 18, 2014

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Dr. Joe Takehara and Chicago Aikido

Dr. Joe Takehara, D.D.S., a second generation Japanese American, has trained with the legends of ai…

Erik Matsunaga • April 17, 2014

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Hamilton Artist Bryce Kanbara

After Bryce’s dad, Tameo Kanbara, was released from the prisoner of war camp in 1946, there w…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 16, 2014

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‘Masterpiece’ Traces Battles Nikkei Fought for Justice

On the dust jacket of this volume, I am quoted as pronouncing it to be “a substantial contrib…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • April 15, 2014

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

I DON’T COMPLAIN – A Profile of Art Morimitsu

The story of Chicagoan Art Morimitsu’s life is the story of a community—the story of Ja…

Japanese American National Museum • April 14, 2014

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Journal Entry #36"/18"/33": "Blonde Ambitions..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • April 12, 2014

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Why Asian Americans hate hearing “Where are you from?”

This has been a good week for sometimes contentious but bracing conversations on Facebook. The late…

Gil Asakawa • April 11, 2014

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Every Branch Has a Personality of Its Own – A Profile of Chiye Tomihiro