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Read part 3 >>4.5 Non-NikkeiIn the 1980s the Japan economy underwent a significant growth tha…

Ana María Díaz Collazos • June 29, 2012

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“It’s not fair!”: Remembering Vincent Chin, Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago from this past Saturday, on June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died. Four nights earlier,…

Lawrence Lan • June 28, 2012

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De Hiroshima y Nagasaki a la paz mundial

Hay viajes que no empiezan cuando se planifican ni cuando se embarca en ellos, sino cuando surge el…

Javier García Wong-Kit +1 • June 27, 2012

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About Hatsumi... with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3

“An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • June 27, 2012

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Japanese-Jew Doesn't "Oy Veh" So Much Since Obama

As a Japanese-Jew, I have historically used self deprecating humor at my own expense as a way to ex…

Francesca Yukari Biller • June 26, 2012

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 1 of 10

INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL HIERARCHIES AND ETHNIC RETURN MIGRATION There has been considerable recen…

Takeyuki Tsuda • June 25, 2012

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Asian American Literature Forum Response by Velina Hasu Houston

“Are there any continuities,” wonders scholar Min Hyoung Song, “between the earli…

Velina Hasu Houston • June 24, 2012

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Journal Entry #English 101: "Utterly Useless Utterances..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • June 23, 2012

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The Colombian Nikkei and the Narration of Selves - Part 3 of 4

Read part 2 >> 4.2 Nisei from early immigrants I interviewed only one individual who was born…

Ana María Díaz Collazos • June 22, 2012

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The Sansei Perspective

The Japanese American experience has rarely been examined through a Sansei lens. Art by first-gener…

Shizue Seigel • June 21, 2012

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