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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Stuff that Sounds like B.S. (but apparently ain’t!)” Check back …
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“I was a very shy child,” he confesses, preferring to be at the back of the group during sanshin presentations. That’s how John remembers his …
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In the spirit of “remembrance” with Day Of Remembrance programs happening all around the country — we feature personal tributes by two Sansei writers, Carolee …
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“May the world be safe, may the world be kind, may the world forever be our home.” —Joy Kogawa, Naomi’s Tree This refrain was sung …
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Back in 2018, I walked the somber halls of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Prior to my visit, I had read …
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Until recently, the history of Japanese Americans was documented almost wholly by looking at the WWII years. Whether they were seen as victims of forced …
Read Chapter 3 >> Arrival in Vancouver At some point in the mid-1950s, Hyoshiro and Fujiye Hirai decided to move their family back to Canada. …
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Rumors I Wish People Would Spread About Me...” Check back …
When oral historian Shanna Farrell began interviewing descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. during World War II, she didn’t make any assumptions. “They …
Ucluelet occupies a special place in Japanese Canadian history. Beginning in 1916-20, as Japanese Canadian fishermen were pushed out of the Fraser River salmon gillnet …
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