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Renee Tajima-Peña is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and professor of Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Her documentary projects focus on immigrant ...
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Read Part 1 >> Later, you returned to Japan as a graduate student and stayed for many years, working, exhibiting, and studying both traditional forms (pottery ...
Artist Erica Kaminishi, born and raised in Mato Gross, Brazil, is one of the hundreds of thousands of Nikkei Brazilian dekasegi who have migrated to ...
I was born in Japan, and when I was eight years old my parents decided that we were going to emigrate to Brazil. We spent ...
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“Some people think my work looks like it’s speaking something like a megaphone,” says Shinpei Takeda. “And some people think it is trying to ...
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Hidden Histories Trailer from Full Spectrum Features on Vimeo. As the years have passed, the importance of the Japanese American story as a part of ...
There are as many artistic manifestations as there are artists in existence. Each artist seems to build their own universe of techniques, methods and meanings ...
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Holly Yasui is the youngest daughter of Minoru Yasui, the legendary Japanese American lawyer and civil rights activist. She is currently at work on a ...
Like many people, and especially many Japanese Americans, I’m a big fan of George Takei. I’ve followed his career since I first saw ...
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The Japanese American National Museum recently welcomed Joy Teruko Ormseth to its volunteer ranks. Born in 2000 in Los Angeles and currently a student at ...
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