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Though I often focus on my grandfather’s acts of defiance and resistance when I talk about my…

Emiko Tsuchida • March 11, 2024

Diana Emiko Tsuchida

Excerpts from In Search of Hiroshi

Chapter 18 — Part 1

I had long thought that I and probably most Japanese Americans of my generation were mental cripple…

Gene Oishi • March 10, 2024

Journal Entry #First CT Scan, 10/1971: "Cogito, Ergo Sum..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • March 9, 2024

#45 Interview with Maeda Ippei, translator of "Anshu" - Part 2

Juliet S. Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-Am…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 8, 2024

Suma Sugi Yokotake – The Woman Who Became The First Japanese American Lobbyist - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Upon her return to Los Angeles, the Los Angeles JACL and the Rafu Shimpo fete…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 8, 2024

Suma Sugi Yokotake – The Woman Who Became The First Japanese American Lobbyist - Part 1

One of the greatest accomplishments of the Japanese American Citizens League has been its success i…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 7, 2024

Stephanie Ajifu, Shibuchoo, Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko LA—Reflects on her Okinawan Cultural Heritage

On March 9, 2024, Discover Nikkei will host “Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don: Exploring Cultural Iden…

Karen Kawaguchi • March 6, 2024

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The Amazing Tashiro Family

Part 4 (2): Aiji Tashiro—Architect

Read Part 4 (1) >> In 1938, Aiji Tashiro was recruited as a faculty member at Appalachian St…

Greg Robinson • March 5, 2024

CPA and lawyer Hikaru Fujimoto, who moved to the U.S. in 1985 and lives in Chicago

Pushed by his father to study in the US I got to know Hikaru Fujimoto, a CPA based in Chicago, whe…

Keiko Fukuda • March 4, 2024

The Amazing Tashiro Family

Part 4 (1): Aiji Tashiro—Writer and Athlete

The most eminent of the five children of Aijiro and Nao Tashiro was certainly their son Aiji (prono…

Greg Robinson • March 4, 2024

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