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When Lunar New Year celebrations are underway, I often get asked if I celebrate Lunar New Year. I l…

Lorene Oikawa • Feb. 19, 2024

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Oshōgatsu Japanese-Brazilian

You know the Oshōgatsu is coming when many people schedule the Bōnenkai, at least here in Brazil. T…

Meiry Mayumi Onohara • Jan. 1, 2024

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Our Japanese American New Year’s Celebration

Oshogatsu (New Year’s) was when our family learned the most about Japanese culture. The week …

Geraldine Shu • Dec. 31, 2023

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Eating Together Again for the Holidays

It’s been a long, sometimes lonely three years since COVID-19 arrived in the world and change…

Gil Asakawa • Jan. 3, 2023

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How Do Nikkei Living in Japan Spend Their New Year?

In Japan, there are old traditions that go back hundreds of years, such as hanami1 in the spring, u…

Mike Omoto • Jan. 1, 2023

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Journal Entry #2023: "I Resolve to Win the Lotto..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 31, 2022

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Ohitori-sama Osechi Table

From Delta to Omicron. The year 2021, too, passed by like a flash in the midst of the Covid-19 pand…

Yusuke Tanaka • Feb. 10, 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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Tropical Oshougatsu

Another year is starting! Usually, it is time to reflect on how the year went, on everything we've …

Antonio Kotaro Hayata • Jan. 5, 2022

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Journal Entry #1/1/2022: "May It Be a Happier Year..."