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It’s hard to imagine anyone traveling to Cuba and coming back unchanged. It’s a place t…

Sharon Yamato • Jan. 11, 2024

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Julieta Fonte Iha, a Cuban Nikkei

Modernity shortens distances, information is just a click away, we can strengthen bonds of friendsh…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • July 4, 2022

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Foujita Discovers the Americas: An Artist's Tour - Part 1

The name of Léonard Foujita (AKA Tsuguharu Foujita) has lost much of its luster today. How…

Greg Robinson +1 • Jan. 7, 2021

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A look at Japanese migration to Cuba: 1898-1958 - Part 2

Read part 1 >> From very early times, the Japanese organized themselves in associations 1 , i…

Lidia Antonia Sánchez Fujishiro • Aug. 7, 2020

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A look at Japanese migration to Cuba: 1898-1958 - Part 1

Introduction Studying the characteristics of the Japanese migratory process to Cuba in the f…

Lidia Antonia Sánchez Fujishiro • Aug. 6, 2020

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

Reflections on the 2018 Survey on the Realities of the Next Generation of Japanese Descendants in Latin America: Part 3 - Cuba

Part 2: Argentina >> The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Latin America and Caribbean Affairs…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • July 17, 2020

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Memories of my grandfather Kenichi Fujishiro

My grandfather Kenichi Fujishiro, a Japanese who arrived in Cuba more than a hundred years ago and…

Lidia Antonia Sánchez Fujishiro • June 1, 2020

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

One Of Our Own

Many of us have spent time with folks who have gone through some catastrophic events in their lives…

Warren Furutani • May 26, 2020

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Mitsuo Akachi: an immigrant who took root strongly in Los Mochis, Sinaloa

As the war between the United States and Japan approached in 1941, the states of Baja California, S…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • March 31, 2020

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Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

The Japan Inside Me

It was the most anticipated time of the year--summer vacation--and she was happy she didn’t h…

Akemi Figueredo Imamura • Oct. 16, 2018

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Finding Joy in Cuba