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Música y baile en la inmigración japonesa. Investigadora brasileña Elza Hatsumi Tsuzuki indaga en territorios inexplorados

Durante tres años, la musicóloga brasileña Elza Hatsumi Tsuzuki ha buceado en …

Enrique Higa Sakuda +1 • Feb. 28, 2013

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Remembering Fred Korematsu

I came across an interview clip on YouTube about one Japanese TV drama titled “Japanese-Ameri…

Mina Otsuka • Feb. 28, 2013

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Pop culture including J-pop builds bridges between Japan and the US

I’m a fan of anime and manga, although I don’t actually follow the zillions of comics o…

Gil Asakawa • Feb. 27, 2013

AKB48 (musical group) animation anime food Japan Japanese food J-pop (music) Kyu Sakamoto music popular culture popular music sukiyaki Ue o Muite Aruko (song)

Kannagara no michi: "Musings from Mister Donut"

So far. The Mister Donut where I’m sitting has been a good metaphor for my experience in Send…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 26, 2013

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An encounter that was infinitely far away

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私が初めてPIZZA を食べた時、こんなに美味いものがこの世にあるのかと思った。住んでいた北パラナーではその縁が無かった。田舎者で7歳の子供であった私が、初めてサンパウロに来た時「PIZZA は珍し…

Hidemitsu Miyamura • Feb. 25, 2013

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The Harada House of Riverside, California: A Milestone in Japanese American Resistance to Racist Oppression - Part 2 of 6

Read Part 1 >>But let me now take you back to my earliest interactions with this remarkable w…

Arthur A. Hansen • Feb. 25, 2013

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Journal Entry #H2S: "SBD Alert!!..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 23, 2013

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My Transnational, Hapa Identity in Question

I like to say that I have a transnational, multicultural, multiethnic identity. I am hapa, haafu, I…

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu • Feb. 22, 2013

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An Interview with Lament in the Night translator Andrew Leong

Last week, Patricia Wakida wrote a profile on translator Andrew Leong on his upcoming book, Lament …

Patricia Wakida • Feb. 21, 2013

authors California children fiction generations immigrants immigration institutional care Issei Japan literature Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration novels orphanages prewar Shoson Nagahara United States

Timothy Teruo Watters: Following an Artist’s Footsteps

“When you walked into (my grandfather’s) house, you saw his paintings hanging like a ga…

Darryl Mori • Feb. 20, 2013

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