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They’ve come a Long Way: Chinese American Support for Japanese Americans in World War II

One aspect of Japanese American history that has been increasingly explored in recent times is the complex and revealing question of relations between Nikkei and ...

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Longing

This month, we feature poetry in Nihongo (with English translation) from Tomiko Matsumoto and Gennosuke Matsumoto, who were both originally from Chiba and eventually married ...

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Chancay Nikko: A Documentary with Memory

The history of the Japanese-Peruvian community has many chapters, although some have been lost in the memories of the immigrants who arrived to work on ...

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Japanese Immigrants Who Joined the Mexican Revolution

For Mexico, late 1910 was a time of great contrasts. On the one hand, the celebration of its first centenary in September of that year ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #5 — Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

Gaijin

I couldn’t understand my friend Emília. I brought her along to spend the holidays at my grandmother's house in Santos, hoping she ...

community en ja es pt

Nikkei Chronicles #5 — Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

Né?

Even though there are many words and expressions that characterize them for Brazilians—hai, banzai, and arigatô—the interjection né [Portuguese-language contraction of não ...

community en ja es pt

Nikkei Chronicles #5 — Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

The Chuo Gakuen School: The Seeds of Prestige for the Japanese Community in Mexico

For 72 years, the Chuo Gakuen school has provided Japanese language and cultural education to Nikkei and Mexican children. The school, located in a modest ...

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The Japanese Face

Recently, I looked up from reading a newspaper in a Rainier Valley shop to see a middle-aged Southeast Asian couple looking at me, pointing and ...

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An Endangered Custom

I am a Sansei Nikkei, 35 years old, born and raised in São Paulo. During childhood and adolescence, I did not have much contact ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

The Remarkable Life and Times of Grace Eiko Thomson - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> How was growing up and living in Winnipeg different than other places in Canada? What kind of interaction between immigrant groups do ...