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My family roots are in the British Isles, but one name in my family tree stands out: Jujiro Takenuchi. My grandma, Elizabeth Taylor—no, not ...
(content warning; child abuse and suicidality) These days, I talk with my grandma, younger siblings, and a cousin, but that’s it for biological family ...
When I enter that “nonki” (as my grandma jokingly calls it) state of being where I sort of zone out of the present time and ...
Read Part 1 >> Have you ever been to Japan? What attracts you to it? Any contact with family there? Yes, Tokyo. It was only four ...
As a public school teacher, I’m keenly aware of the breakneck speed at which culture is evolving and how, correspondingly, ideas of “Nikkeiness” are ...
My mother is Japanese and my father is American. I am half-Japanese. Ha-fu. Some people dispute this term. They call mixed-race people ‘doubles’, to reflect ...
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Every team across Canada dreams about winning it all, and in 2018, Richmond’s Seafair Islanders Bantam hockey club’s young U-15 (ages 13-14) finished ...
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Melanie Camille Michiko Carrié, the newly crowned Cherry Blossom Festival queen, has lived in places others have only dreamed of — and in less than a ...
What does it mean to be hapa? Interdisciplinary artist Paul Kikuchi has been thinking about that question a lot lately as he prepares to run ...
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“I begin to see the peculiar tragedy of the Nisei as that of a generation of transition accepted neither by the Japanese nor by America ...
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