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Kakehashi Project alum Alec Nakashima designs his new sustainable clothing collection with direct inspiration from his memories of Japan. To say that Alec Nakashima experienced ...
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Akemi Matsuda, second-generation Nikkei, had lived in Japan from 3 to 19 years old. There, she completed elementary school and, later, opted for what in ...
Read Part 1 >> Can you describe your work as a designer? Are there particular aspects of your design that might identify you as Nikkei? My ...
“My craft practise connects me through lineage, to my ancestors. As I make, I think about how my maker hands connect me across the ocean ...
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Although picking coffee beans on her family’s Hawaiian farm was what Sumiko did each day as a child, she dreamt that one day she ...
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Fashion Economics 101” Check back every weekend for subsequent ...
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, Neal asks "Are you a fashion trend-setter?? Or are ...
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, Neal asks "So where does "Fashion-forward" end and altering ...
Growing up, Jane Aiko Yamano never dreamed that she would be the heir to her remarkable grandmother and the various beauty and health schools she ...
Like it was yesterday, I remember the first time I picked up and started to read Michi Nishiura Weglyn’s Years of Infamy: The Untold ...
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