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It can be said that the popularity of Peruvian Nikkei cuisine is now indisputable. From makis and t…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Feb. 21, 2022

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What is Nikkei Food? A Conversation with Chef Ron Elmaleh

What does Japanese or Nikkei food in Canada look like? Taste like? Who better to ask than the execu…

Mimi Okabe • Feb. 18, 2022

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Oshōgatsu in the Pandemic…Again

Nima-kai Traditions: Oshogatsu Foods 2022 After another long, trying year, Nikkei around the world…

Kimiko Medlock • Feb. 3, 2022

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Writing Wrongs in the Past and Present: How Director Sherri Kajiwara is Preserving Nikkei Voices in Canada - Part 1

Back in November, I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Sherri Kajiwara, the D…

Mimi Okabe • Feb. 1, 2022

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Behind the Scenes of the 61st Convention of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad

Over the weekend of October 30 and 31, 2021, the 61st Convention of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad (Kai…

Antonio Kotaro Hayata • Dec. 29, 2021

Convention of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad (event)

The new challenges of the new era: connecting Nikkei across space, time and generations

My grandparents left Japan aboard the ship Ruys on July 11, 1957, heading to the port of Santos and…

Clarice Satiko Aoto • Dec. 8, 2021

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Transformation

Nothing like biting into the palpable words of poets to dig into the transformation that signifies …

Brandon Shimoda +2 • Nov. 18, 2021

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

Are Japanese-Americans living in Japan reaching retirement age?

A year and a half has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but in Japan, seminars on the issue…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Nov. 15, 2021

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Live learning

He was just a child, but he remembers it as if he were a witness again. From a window on the secon…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Nov. 10, 2021

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

Passing on the Joy of Being Nikkei

I love obon. Standing under strings of chochin, their warm light dotting indigo summer sk…

Norio Umezu Hall • Oct. 20, 2021

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The sweet side of Peruvian Nikkei cuisine