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Nobuko Fujimoto – She Taught Much More Than Piano

Every few months, friends, family and former students of piano teacher Nobuko Fujimoto gather at her home in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles for ...

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Profile on Courtney Ozaki - Creative Producer and Performing Arts Manager

Courtney Ozaki is an arts producer and administrator, community leader, and taiko player living and working in the Denver Metro Area. She is Director of ...

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The Sound of the Japanese Diaspora: An Interview with G Yamazawa

When you first hear G Yamazawa you instantly want to bob your head while carefully listening to his astute observations of the world he inhabits ...

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Hapa Music is Black and Brown

Jhené Aiko and the Problem of Multiracial Self-Representation

At the 2018 VH1 Mother’s Day music tribute concert titled, Dear Mama: A Love Letter to Moms, Grammy nominated singer and songwriter Jhené Aiko ...

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The Songbird of Manzanar: Mary Nomura - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Going back into Manzanar again, was there one person that gave you that nickname “the songbird”?  I don’t know who gave ...

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The Songbird of Manzanar: Mary Nomura - Part 1

“I always thought when I was a little girl, ‘I’m going to be a singer on the radio.’ I thought I would not get ...

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On a Soul-Searching Journey with Kishi Bashi

Kishi Bashi at the Skirball Cultural Center on August 23, 2018. Striding onto the Skirball Cultural Center’s Sunset Concert stage before a full house ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #7 — Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

Natsukashii Moments

Natsukashii. That is the Japanese word that best expresses the feeling I get whenever I hear a song from “back in the day” – which, by ...

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Interview with Music Educator Meghan Tokunaga-Scanlon - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Recently, I was lucky enough to travel to Estes Park to visit the beautiful mountain campus of Eagle Rock School and meet ...

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Interview with Music Educator Meghan Tokunaga-Scanlon - Part 1

Meghan Tokunaga-Scanlon is an energetic and passionate music educator, who leads music, theatre, and dance programming at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center in ...