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Language acquisition is tricky. Before I began working in South America, I had a couple of opp…

John Katagi • May 29, 2014

Brazil clothing languages South America

第十九話　（後編）ナカジマがやって来る！

前編 >> 思い切って日本行きを決心したナカジマ。2ヵ月前までは、サンパウロの「イタリア人街」でピザ職人として働いていた。妻のマリア・セシリアはレース編みやガーデニングを楽しんで毎日を…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • May 28, 2014

Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers Nikkei in Japan

Japanese American National Museum Magazine

The Best Fertilizer is Your Shadow: The Chino Family Farm

“Chino Ranch Chopped Salad” is featured on the menu at Spago, Wolfgang Puck’s Hol…

Japanese American National Museum • May 28, 2014

agricultural laborers agriculture California Chino Farm Del Mar farming generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Junzo Chino migrant agricultural workers migrant labor migration Nisei United States

One Heart Beating to the Drums of Many—A work of fiction

“I don’t make it through this side of town too often, these days.” “Wh…

Erik Matsunaga • May 27, 2014

California Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Catholicism Chicago concentration camps fiction generations Illinois imprisonment incarceration Little Tokyo Los Angeles Maryknoll music resettlements short stories United States World War II World War II camps Yonsei

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

Honshu Japan Kagoshima Prefecture Sakurajima Taro Yashima

Photographer Russell Lee

Photographer Russell Lee (1903–86) is best recognized for his work with the Farm Security Adm…

Morgen Young +1 • May 26, 2014

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Journal Entry #Fighting Loneliness Since 2003: "Meal Partner..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • May 24, 2014

cartoonists cartoons humor Japan Moomins (fictitious characters)

Japanese community in Colonia Urquiza, Partido de La Plata

Parte II: Instituciones culturales

1. Asociación japonesa La Plata. La Fundación del Club Japonés de la Colonia U…

Irene Isabel Cafiero • May 23, 2014

Argentina Buenos Aires Colonia Urquiza culture Japanese Association (Mexicali, Baja California) Japanese language schools language schools

No Invisible Minority: Japanese Americans at the University of Colorado, 1910-1945 - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> World War II furthered diversity in the university’s faculty roster…

David M. Hays • May 23, 2014

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

A Different Kind of Approach – A Profile of Yoshiko Uragami

Yoshiko Uragami is a remarkable woman—though she will deny that there’s anything very s…

Japanese American National Museum • May 22, 2014

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