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For weeks I resisted beginning work on this essay. Then, synchronistically, I encountered two piece…

Mari L'Esperance • Jan. 23, 2013

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Inouye Death End of Era

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 17, 2012) — The passing of Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawai&lsqu…

Asian American Press • Jan. 22, 2013

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赤土の大地と生きる―パラグアイ日系人 - その2

その１を読む＞＞実はおいしい出稼ぎ日本の友人や日本人旅行者から、日系人の出稼ぎが会社にいるとかいたとかいう話を聞くことがある。そんな時、かつて全く知識がなかった私は「かわいそうに」と思ったものだ…

Sawako Suganuma • Jan. 21, 2013

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Why Orange County's Japanese community built a church in Wintersburg

The century-old document below is held in the archive of the present-day Wintersburg Presbyterian C…

Mary Adams Urashima • Jan. 21, 2013

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Journal Entry #"V" From ‘83: "Reptilian Rumors..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Jan. 19, 2013

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An encounter that was infinitely far away

ある日系二世ブラジル人の正月の想い

私は元旦生まれである。父母の生涯でもっとも異常な時期であった戦時中、サントス市日本人退去命令のため、田舎町パラガスー・パウリスタの小さな日本人旅館「丸林」の一室に住んでいたときに生まれたと、父の古い…

Hidemitsu Miyamura • Jan. 18, 2013

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Japanese Americans, Chinese food and our sense of community

Mmmmm. Chinese food. Just thinking about Lao Wang Noodle House in Denver, which I swear serves the …

Gil Asakawa • Jan. 18, 2013

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Two Urban Subcultures Meet in the Art of Gajin Fujita

Five Japanese courtesans, their kimono sliding unashamedly off their shoulders in the heat, look on…

Meher McArthur • Jan. 17, 2013

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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Monkey Majik and the Yoshida Brothers’ “SOS Tohoku Relief Tour”

“I was scared of old, distant memories Now I’v…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 16, 2013

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Silk Cocoon Shatters the Myth of the “Model Minority”

It was not until her mother died that Satsuki Ina came to understand the historic event that deeply…

Barbara Takei • Jan. 15, 2013

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Betwixt and Between: Embracing the Borderlands of My Mixed Heritage