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Her Grandfather Was Sent to an Internment Camp—And Never Returned

This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a ...

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Who are Nikkeijin?

Who does “Nikkeijin” refer to? Answering this question is not easy. Today they are defined as “Japanese immigrants who have moved overseas with the intention ...

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Alejandro Yoshizawa: Crossing Oceans + Cultures in All Our Father’s Relations

How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how ...

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The Evolving Japanese American Identity - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Connected to Japanese Society and Culture Many Shin-Nisei (children of post war Japanese immigrants) on the U.S. continent do not identify ...

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Nikkei Heritage

The Evolving Japanese American Identity - Part 1

Slideshow above:  The few remaining urban enclaves of Japanese American culture and identity. Have you ever thought about what it means to identify as Japanese ...

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Everyone is half and double

My name is Aiko. I was born to a Costa Rican mother and a Japanese father. People often ask me, “And your Spanish name is ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #5: Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

Yokoso Y’all

Thirty years ago, much to my delight, two events occurred which served to encapsulate my bicultural, hapa heritage. I am the daughter of a Japanese ...

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That Hapa Kid—Part 3

Rear Part 2 >> Touring my own country, in another country I’ve said in previous articles that I don’t feel I belong in this ...

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The Stories of the ‘War Brides’ of Japan Need to Be Told

One day in the early 1980s, my Japanese mother took my sister and me to an International District gift shop. A middle-aged Japanese American man ...

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That Hapa Kid—Part 2

Read Part 1 >> In June a friend invited me to join her and other members of the Japanese Student Association (JSA) of Seattle University for ...