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SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Overall over 500 participated in the joint convention of the Association of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad (48th annual Kaigai Nikkeijin Taikai-KNT) …
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In the Western world, New Year’s Eve is a big day for parties to celebrate the end of a year and the fresh start of …
Most Nisei will remember Jack Matsuoka’s drawings from the seventies published in Hokubei Mainichi, along with his series, Sensei, and his book about relocation camp …
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Cultural anthropologist, Ruth Benedict stated that, “The Japanese were the most alien enemy the United States had ever fought in an all-out struggle. In no …
The opening night of the new museum exhibition called Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier was exciting for me, but also surreal. To …
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Chapter 2 >> Haru Shishido reached out for the dashboard as their Model T truck hit some potholes in the dirt road. Papa was going …
I first heard about Gordon Hirabayashi over ten years ago, through a video I saw on PBS titled A Personal Matter. I was very intrigued …
In all of his pursuits as an actor, writer, and director, Lane Nishikawa has “continually broken ground in examining the human condition of the Asian …
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Tomás de Gonzada Street in the mid-1970s: flashy neon lights, Japanese men drunkenly staggering and stumbling out of a club entrance, and the lovely voices …
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Read Part 1 >> Japantown Family and Personal Recollections By now, my childhood flashback images of my grandfather’s semi-automatic sembei machine are stroboscopic visual pulsations. …
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