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Hopeless romantic semi-feminism: A follow-up on Valentine’s Day

I must reaffirm that being a hopeless romantic does not take away from me being anti-chauvinist. The fact that I demand to be treated like ...

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Koji's Column

Citizen First

Anyone who wasn’t actively helping the Jews and other displaced people in Nazi Germany were as culpable for the crimes against humanity as any ...

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Japanese American Resettlement: Through the Lens

In this short essay I’d like to describe a new manuscript in progress, tentatively titled Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens. My co-author on ...

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¿Es o no una ventaja ser Nikkei?

La situación de la inmigración japonesa de la post segunda guerra mundial

Muchos fueron las dificultades, los sufrimientos y los vejámenes que habían tenido que pasar los inmigrantes japoneses del continente americano como consecuencia del ...

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Cross-culturing Valentine’s

I don’t consider myself a feminist. Mainly because I am, painful as it is to admit, a hopeless romantic. When it comes to Saint ...

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Bad SAT/GRE genes?

I’m preparing to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) to apply for graduate school. Studying for this exam takes me back to high school ...

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Nikkei in the Americas: New Questions, New Perspectives

Perhaps the most important lesson I learned from participating in the National Museum's "International Nikkei Research Project (INRP)1 " is how varied the Nikkei ...

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Following my sign

My birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks. I tend to get spiritual around the month of my birthday, trying to deepen the ...

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ブラジル国、ニッポン村だより

ワラと松と竹－ブラジル日系社会で新年を迎える

サンパウロから500キロ離れた小さな町。12月にはいると、いつも７時には早々閉めてしまう商店が遅くまでやるようになる。 街の中心の辻々には、財政が厳しいなか ...

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Japanese cars are better

In last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times (January 21, 2007), columnist Steve Lopez wrote about Hummers and the people who drive them, specifically Los Angeles ...