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A haiku association in Seattle, Rainier Ginsha will begin its 85th year in 2019. Nineteen members of the association bring their haiku once a month ...
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As a younger Sansei/older Yonsei, I've been reflecting a lot on the big sisters and cousins of the Sansei generation who have raised ...
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This month I thought we’d have a little fun with short form and featuring two creative community members who are dear to the Japanese ...
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Little Tokyo, 1941 As I walked toward Little Tokyo over the First Street Bridge from Boyle Heights, I felt the bracing power of the fiery ...
In July 1932, on the occasion of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, The Kashu Mainichi ran an article welcoming the Japanese athletes, written by an ...
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Read part 2 >> In 1990 I made my first trip to Community Yuba pregnant with hope. The offshoot of Yuba’s legacy had propagated and ...
Read part 1 >> At Yama, where farming, daily reverence, and art converge, the idea of work can mean most anything. The people grow fruits and ...
Read the introduction to the Yama Project > YAMA: Embrace the ordinary and nurture a spirit of gratitude 誰の墓と 聞いて子供等 手を合わす whose grave is it? ask ...
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Introduction to the Yama ProjectThis project is a documentary of a Japanese farming and arts community in Brazil known as Comunidade Yuba. The farm is ...
A recent trip to Los Angeles to present at the Japanese American National Museum afforded me a glimpse into a culture in which I’m ...
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