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ずらり並んだ日本酒の瓶。ここ数年の日本酒ブームでどこのスーパーの酒類売り場でもずいぶんと銘柄が増えたものだが、この店ではビンについた値札がすべてドル（＄）表示。といっても免税店ではない。 [inl…

Ryusuke Kawai • Aug. 15, 2012

International District Seattle United States Uwajimaya (grocery store) Uwajimaya Village Washington

Nikkei Chronicles #1—ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

Blending Recipes And Cultures

Whether I watched my Jewish grandfather carefully save the chicken schmaltz, after preparing Matzoh…

Francesca Yukari Biller • Aug. 15, 2012

Discover Nikkei food hapa identity Itadakimasu (series) Japanese food Jews multiculturalism Nikkei Chronicles (series) racially mixed people recipes sukiyaki

And the Soul Shall Dance

About a year ago, my mother called to tell me that my grandmother had stopped eating. It was expect…

Patricia Wakida • Aug. 14, 2012

Buddhism California Central California festivals Fresno matsuri Obon religions United States

Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 8 of 10

Read Part 7 >> The Japanese Americans: A Broadening of Ethnic Consciousness Because…

Takeyuki Tsuda • Aug. 13, 2012

dekasegi foreign workers Japan Japanese Americans Japanese Brazilians Nikkei in Japan

The Asian American Literary Review

Poems by Hiromi Itō -- from Wild Grass on the Riverbank - Part 2

Read Jeffrey Angles’ short essay about Wild Grass on the Riverbank >> Mother Lead…

Hiromi Itō • Aug. 12, 2012

immigration literature poetry

Journal Entry #Circa 10th Century: "Somato Sensation..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Aug. 11, 2012

cartoonists cartoons food humor inventions Japanese food wasabi

43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage/2012 Manzanar At Dusk: A Shin-Nisei Perspective

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Manzanar National Historic Site, the 4…

Yuta Ebikawa • Aug. 10, 2012

California communities concentration camps generations immigration Japanese Americans Manzanar concentration camp Manzanar Pilgrimage (event) Nikkei Student Union (UCLA) pilgrimages postwar Shin-Nisei students United States World War II World War II camps

The Pencil Box

I think most people have a collection of odds and ends they keep as old keepsakes from their parent…

David Toyoshima • Aug. 9, 2012

families World War II

The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

日系コミュニティーのエスニックビジネス、デフレとの戦い

今年の3月、『日系ビジネス』という経済誌（Nº1634, 2012.03.26, 26~42頁）にデフレの特集記事があり、そこにはあまり何でもかんでも安くするとそれによってすべてが破壊され…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Aug. 8, 2012

business economics economies management Nikkei in Japan

Investing in the People

As part of the Nikkei Community Internship (NCI) program, I have spent the past eight weeks not onl…

Lawrence Lan • Aug. 8, 2012

California communities internships Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Kathryn Doi Todd Little Tokyo Los Angeles students United States

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アメリカで最も成功した日系スーパー日本食材を広めたシアトル・宇和島屋ファミリーその１