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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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“10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!” It’s a new year. For Americans, it’s their last holiday ...
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As a journalist—a journalism student, I should say—I interview people almost every day. My job is to tell stories, about the places I ...
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My feet are swollen and sore, and it’s all because of pork belly. In Japan we had a special distributor which brought our okonomiyaki ...
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During my involvement in Japanese American studies, from 1972 to the present, I have been struck by two simultaneous developments. The first is a growing ...
A-ra, I think, struggling to turn off the hot water shower faucet. My uncle. The last person in the whole wide world that I want ...
“I guess we are throwaway girls,” Risa says, helping me to unpack one of my boxes. I do not know why it is taking her ...
Read Part 1 >> Can you talk a bit about your families here? I married three times and broke up three times. I have six sons ...
Torontonian Yosh Inouye, a retired 70-something photography teacher, was the one of the first to teach me about the paradox of what it means to ...
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“Working as a volunteer guide at the Japanese American National Museum is such an interesting experience. I’ve taken a class about the history of ...
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