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

Neal Yamamoto • April 12, 2014

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Mexico - Migration Historical Overview

On May 10, 1897, the first Japanese immigrants arrived in Mexico to start a coffee plantation in th…

Akemi Kikumura Yano • April 11, 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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Vivid History: Scholar-Author Eric Muller and the “Colors of Confinement”

During World War II, amateur photographer Bill Manbo had a camera with him while unjustly incarcera…

Darryl Mori • April 10, 2014

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Watshoi TV: Sonríe, estás en internet

Los nikkei del mundo ahora tienen un medio más para estar unidos. El Departamento de Juventu…

Javier García Wong-Kit +1 • April 9, 2014

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Tony Osumi • April 9, 2014

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Viewing Seattle's Nikkei Community through Multiple Lenses

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Seattle was the West Coast’s most popu…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • April 8, 2014

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Uncovering the Past

As I go through my father’s things in the aftermath of his death, I came across a small book …

Louis Edward Rosas • April 7, 2014

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Journal Entry #14th Century Food: "Mottainai Exemplified..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • April 5, 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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Journal Entry #36"/18"/33": "Blonde Ambitions..."