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During one of my first visits to the city of Manaus in the early 1990s, I was hosted by a Japanese …

John Katagi • April 12, 2010

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The Asian American Literary Review

Poem: "The Leaf Book"

The Leaf BookIn the fall of third grade, when my teacherassigns the leaf-book project—collect…

April Naoko Heck • April 11, 2010

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Journal Entry #1965-1968:"Playtime in the Space Age..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • April 10, 2010

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J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 4

Read Part 3 >>After this case Marion’s services were in such demand that the majority o…

Janice Marion Wright LaMoree • April 9, 2010

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Profile: James Mitsumori, one of Keiro Senior HealthCare’s Founding Fathers

Although a number of Nikkei and Asian eldercare organizations grew organically out of existing Japa…

Nancy Matsumoto • April 8, 2010

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Remembering Thomas Makiyama Sensei

Whenever I go back to Japan these days, it is really with more of a sense of mission, reevaluating …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 7, 2010

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The Man Who Raised Green Dragons

Right at the center of Chugoku lays the prefecture of Hiroshima, one of the most fascinating, mount…

Edward Moreno • April 6, 2010

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Journal Entry #5 Personas:"Disassociated Associations..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • April 3, 2010

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J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 3

Read Part 2 >>In 1913, the year of graduation from law school for Miyasaki and Wright, the Al…

Janice Marion Wright LaMoree • April 2, 2010

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Dare to Be Naive

R. Buckminster Fuller once wrote, “Dare to be naive.”In these days of non-stop irony, c…

Ken Narasaki • April 1, 2010

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