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Did you know there are mules on Izenajima (Izena Island)? Well, recently there were two roaming aro…

Colin Y. Sewake • July 3, 2023

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Family Man - Kurt Suzuki

When you enter Kurt Suzuki’s home in Redondo Beach, California, you are struck by what is mis…

Alan Suemori • June 25, 2023

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Home Leaver: A Japanese American Search for Belonging

Chapter 2—Role Reversal

Yujin’s was the first familiar face I saw after arriving in Tokyo. Our reunion was on a str…

Lon Kurashige • May 26, 2023

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Mom Was Young Once, Too!

The North American Post Editor’s note: Tokita’s present-day recounting of Issei an…

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • May 25, 2023

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Interview with Emi Sasagawa, Author of Atomweight

Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has be…

John Endo Greenaway • May 10, 2023

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Ancestry and Toxicity: Breaking Free From Old Patterns and Toxic Relationships

When “unconditional loyalty” goes wrong... Over the years of putting together the piec…

Tuney-Tosheia P. McDaniels • March 20, 2023

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Tea with my Ancestors

It’s the last day of February. In these final hours of the month, as I lay trying to figure o…

Jessica Huey • March 8, 2023

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Lessons Realized

Have you ever thought about the lessons you learned from your parents? When did you realize that …

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • March 5, 2023

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Only in America

Mom became quite a businesswoman after Papa passed away in October 1948 after a ten-month illness c…

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • Feb. 22, 2023

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Bisa AIKO and her 102nd birthday

“Congratulations, Bisa , on your birthday” and a smiling grandmother AIKO receives, from each of he…

Katsuo Higuchi • Feb. 17, 2023

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Mules on Izenajima, Okinawa

Family Man - Kurt Suzuki

Chapter 2—Role Reversal

Mom Was Young Once, Too!

Interview with Emi Sasagawa, Author of Atomweight

Ancestry and Toxicity: Breaking Free From Old Patterns and Toxic Relationships

Tea with my Ancestors

Lessons Realized

Only in America

Bisa AIKO and her 102nd birthday