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

Neal Yamamoto • March 16, 2024

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An Unsung Humanitarian - Battle of Okinawa

Morimasa Kaneshiro was born and raised in Hilo where his family ran a barbershop. After graduating …

Dan Nakasone • March 15, 2024

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Japanese Companies Active in Brazil Today

Part 9: NTT Limited: A global company

In the ninth episode, we spoke with Shinsuke Mizumori, Vice President of JMNC-LATAM at NTT Limite…

Tomoko Oura • March 15, 2024

Brazil Japanese business enterprises NTT Ltd. São Paulo

Naomi Hirahara’s Meticulously-Researched Mystery about Postwar Midcentury Japanese America

There’s a haunting in Naomi Hirahara’s latest novel, Evergreen—a much-antici…

Tamiko Nimura • March 14, 2024

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Broken Promises: A Japanese-Canadian History Exhibit in Shiga, Japan—Part 2

Read Part 1 >> From November 1, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the Shiga Peace Museum in Higashi…

Masumi Izumi • March 13, 2024

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Broken Promises: A Japanese-Canadian History Exhibit in Shiga, Japan — Part 1

From November 1, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the Shiga Peace Museum in Higashiomi City, Shiga P…

Masumi Izumi • March 12, 2024

Emiko Tsuchida on How Her Grandmother’s Story Helped Her Write Her Own

Though I often focus on my grandfather’s acts of defiance and resistance when I talk about my…

Emiko Tsuchida • March 11, 2024

Diana Emiko Tsuchida

Excerpts from In Search of Hiroshi

Chapter 18 — Part 1

I had long thought that I and probably most Japanese Americans of my generation were mental cripple…

Gene Oishi • March 10, 2024

Journal Entry #First CT Scan, 10/1971: "Cogito, Ergo Sum..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • March 9, 2024

Suma Sugi Yokotake – The Woman Who Became The First Japanese American Lobbyist - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Upon her return to Los Angeles, the Los Angeles JACL and the Rafu Shimpo fete…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 8, 2024

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Journal Entry #Released in '71: "Can't You Read the Sign?"