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When Claremont-based fabric artist Sumi Foley was a child growing up in Osaka, Japan, she often spe…

Meher McArthur • April 4, 2014

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Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration

Chile - Migration Historical Overview

Between 1910 and 1940, the number of Japanese immigrants who entered the country never exceeded nin…

Akemi Kikumura Yano • April 4, 2014

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Poems from Topaz

In an intergenerational reading held at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 15…

Brian Komei Dempster • April 3, 2014

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Starting a New Life

My mother, Kinuko Saito, was holding me in her arms as we left Japan. I was six months old when we …

Marie Masumoto • April 2, 2014

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Maya Erskine, of Amazon’s ‘Betas’ TV Show, Challenges Hollywood’s Status Quo

Among the many characters in the web-based shows that are beginning to sweep the internet, one star…

Catherine Zaw • April 1, 2014

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Recipe for an Improvised Girls’ Day

Girls’ Day at our house this year meant pink and green mochi, a box stand with Emperor and Em…

Tamiko Nimura • March 31, 2014

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Journal Entry #Née 1954: "Creature Features..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • March 29, 2014

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

Japanese American Sumo in the Continental United States, 1900-1941 - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>Japanese American Sumo in the New Era: From Issei to Nisei The 1924 Immigration…

Eiichiro Azuma • March 28, 2014

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Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration

Canada - Migration Historical Overview

Most Nikkei immigrated to Canada between the 1890s and the 1920s, although the first Japanese in Ca…

Akemi Kikumura Yano • March 28, 2014

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

Japanese American Sumo in the Continental United States, 1900-1941 - Part 1

Sumo—in which two hefty, virtually naked men push, shove, and throw each other—probably…

Eiichiro Azuma • March 27, 2014