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Kayla Isomura may be best known for their work on The Suitcase Project (2018), a multimedia ex…

Karen Kawaguchi • June 27, 2022

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Akashi-Kama: Inspired by Japanese-Americans. Created for Everyone.

The clothing world is full of western brands making Japanese-inspired clothes and Japanese brands m…

James Smith • June 16, 2022

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Cultural Clashes

My name is Filipe Fukutani, a fourth generation half Brazilian half Japanese born in Brazil. I grew…

Luis Filipe Fukutani • April 20, 2022

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Am I Japanese?

I did not really think about the subject until I was guiding a tour at the Japanese American Nation…

Roy Kakuda • March 22, 2022

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Seeing New Years with New Eyes

If Japanese Americans have a Norman Rockwell holiday, oshogatsu is it. Instead of someone serving …

Norio Umezu Hall • Jan. 1, 2022

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Sata Andagi

I don't know when you came into my life, I just know that now you are part of it, of my culture…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • Nov. 19, 2021

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

My dear family

Since I was born, my Obachan said that we would have to speak Nihongo because we looked Japanese, d…

Amelia Hisami Karuka Shoji • Oct. 19, 2021

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

Japanese Kiwi

I descend from a long line of samurai families. I am the fifth of six children of my parents, Taeko…

Jacqueline Yoshioka-Braid • Oct. 7, 2021

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Nikkei memories

Sueko Noda, a 93-year-old Nisei, remembers that during the looting of Japanese homes and businesse…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Oct. 5, 2021

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

Across Oceans

My parents met in Osaka when Mum was in her final year of school and Dad was a university student. …

Yuki Kawakami • Oct. 5, 2021

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Documentary Photographer and Journalist Kayla Isomura Explores Nikkei Culture and Identity

Akashi-Kama: Inspired by Japanese-Americans. Created for Everyone.

Cultural Clashes

Am I Japanese?

Seeing New Years with New Eyes

Sata Andagi

My dear family

Japanese Kiwi

Nikkei memories

Across Oceans