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Read Part 2 >> 5. Floyd Dell Floyd Dell, an Illinoian and editor of Friday Literary Review, a weekly supplement of The Chicago Evening Post, also ...
Read Part 1 >> 3. Suicidal temptations and rebirth By June 1909, having lost hope and with no meaning to his life, Maedako attempted to commit ...
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, once proclaimed “America’s most influential proletarian novel,”1 was translated into the Japanese language by proletariat writer Hiroichiro Maedako ...
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Watch a Chicago Bulls game and try to find Jeff Tanaka. On gameday he’ll be sitting courtside, but he’s not one of the ...
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Read Part 1 >> In the 1950’s Tachi and May had their first daughter, Ruth Ann. Soon after, Hiro and Aiko had Linda, born in ...
James Tatsushi Ukita was born on December 14, 1920 being one of four children of Frank Masashi Ukita (Grandpa) and Tsuya Ukita (Grandma). He was ...
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Read Part 2 >> 6. Shoyu forever In August 1907, the year that the Takeda store came to Chicago, the Japanese YMCA, which was later directed ...
Read Part 1 >> 3. Shoyu manufacturers in Chicago: Shinsaku Nagano Hiroichiro Maedako, a socialist writer who lived in Chicago from 1907 to 1915, described Japanese ...
1. Introduction In a short story titled “On January First” in his book, American Story, Kafu Nagai depicted a Japanese immigrant in New York who ...
Read Part 2 >> Keiko Harada Ohtaka Clark Street and Division Street bring back so many great memories. They were very busy streets with lots of ...
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