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Where do you come from? How did you get here? Why do you do what you do? As a public volunteer at t…

Sergio Holguin • Oct. 14, 2011

British Columbia Burnaby Canada docents education imprisonment incarceration Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre students volunteerism World War II

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Suemi Higa y Ricky Ota tienen en común, además de su inagotable energía y una …

Jhohana Pujay Huete +1 • Oct. 13, 2011

Peru Ricky Ota Suemi Higa

Helen H. Ota, Artistic Director, Cold Tofu

Helen H. Ota is the Artistic Director of COLD TOFU, the nation’s premier Asian American comed…

Koji Steven Sakai • Oct. 13, 2011

acting actors artists arts California Cold Tofu (organization) comedy communities entertainers entertainment festivals Grateful Crane Ensemble Helen Ota Japanese Americans Los Angeles Nisei Week (event) performing arts theater United States

Chapter 13: Do You Speak Nisei Language?

When I was a student, we had an interesting kid in our class. She was Japanese Brazilian, and spok…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Oct. 12, 2011

Brazil generations identity languages Nisei

Restaurant Row, Mitsuwa Marketplace: The Production and Consumption of Japan outside of Japan - Part 2

Read part 1 >>The Atmosphere: People, Spatiality, and FoodThere are several entrances to this…

Eri Kameyama • Oct. 12, 2011

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それはグローバルな旅の結果―ブラジルの栽培作物の変化と日本移民－その3

その2＞＞３．日本移民が変えたブラジルの柿、リンゴ、パパイヤ日本移民は、3起源の作物を改良している。つまり、既存のもの、外来のもの、日本伝来のものである。これらの３起源の栽培植物は時間的にも空間的に…

Chiyoko Mita • Oct. 11, 2011

agriculture Brazil immigrants immigration migration

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

5 Months after the Disaster & So Much Yet To Do…

After the disaster on March 11th, the narrative then takes on a life of its own. The stories are r…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 11, 2011

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan earthquakes JPquake2011

Documenting Manzanar - Part 16 of 18 (Toyo Miyatake)

Read Part 15 >>The Post-War Years: Coming to Terms with ManzanarOf course once freed from the…

Nancy Matsumoto • Oct. 10, 2011

Ansel Adams California concentration camps Dorothea Lange Manzanar concentration camp photography Toyo Miyatake United States World War II camps

Journal Entry #86.4 Million: "Feline Facts..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Oct. 8, 2011

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Research on Japanese American Literary Magazines: Focusing on Japanese Language Magazines

アメリカ東海岸唯一の文芸誌『ＮＹ文藝』―その7/9

その6＞＞花江マリオはニューヨークの領事館に勤め、後にペルーの領事館へ転勤している。彼の創作は7編で、他に戯曲も書いている。作品は太平洋戦争に絡むもの、一世と二世の関係を描くもの、南米の日系社会を扱…

Iwao Yamamoto • Oct. 7, 2011

Japanese literature literature New York (state) Ny Bungei (magazine) postwar United States World War II

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