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Read Part 1 >> When I arrived at The Plaza, I found Aunt Emiko watching a game show on a large TV in the community …
Author’s note: After my mother had passed and my brothers and I were cleaning out her house, I was overcome with such intense grief—unrelenting waves …
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Vinicius “Vini” Taguchi personifies the cross cultural, interconnected reach of today’s Nikkei community. His outlook is as broad as his background while his occupation and …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Modern ‘WISEGUY’ Nicknames...” Check back every weekend for subsequent entries.
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The competent no-nonsense character Keiko Elizabeth plays on Showtime’s hit television show City on a Hill contradicts a negative and false stereotype some non-Asian people …
I was orphaned in my 60’s. I do not have the luxury of that place Robert Frost describes: ‘Home is the place where, when you …
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “My Name is N-E-A-L...” Check back every weekend for subsequent …
In this day of hi-tech computer with iPhone, iPad, Galaxy, and so forth, whatever happened to the old fashion nicknames? Nowadays, you hear of famous …
Read Part 1 >> Cultural Heritage and Assimilation The names that immigrant parents select for their American-born children say something about culture, customs, hopes, and …
Is it Eisenhauer or Eisenhower? Gonzalez or Gonzales? Yasuzo or Yasudo? Whether they are misspellings, attempts at assimilation, or expressions of individualism, the variations in …
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