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Chapter Twelve—Get Back in There

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Aug 2017

Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were adopted into families that had no ...

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Chapter Eleven—Hiroshima World

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Jul 2017

We have only forty-eight hours to bring Hiroshima World to Manhattan. I take that back. Now forty-seven hours. We’re turning our apartment—well, our ...

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Chapter Ten—Kappa Power

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Jun 2017

I saw my first homeless person in Japan when I was visiting Tokyo. Actually there were a whole group of them on the lower level ...

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Chapter Nine—Clipped

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 May 2017

In Japanese folktales, old women are sometimes cast as the “bad guys.” You see it in “Tongue-Cut Sparrow,” in which an elderly lady clips the ...

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Chapter Eight—Turning Japanese

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Apr 2017

It takes Gen some time to calm Tom down. After all, I, his enemy, have taken over his grill. It doesn’t matter whether you ...

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Sawtelle Stories: On the Naming of “Sawtelle Japantown”

To “Chinchikurin”

  • By Yukikazu Nagashima
  • 17 Mar 2017

“I want Caucasians to eat it.” Chinchikurin—Hiroshima okonomiyaki restaurant on Sawtelle Boulevard Finding a parking spot on a street in Sawtelle on a Friday ...

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Chapter Seven—Food Fight

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Mar 2017

After I was used by Morgan Taketa, I stay in my bed of Amazon packaging and bubble wrap for almost two weeks straight. Unfortunately for ...

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Chapter Six—“We Believe in America”

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Feb 2017

We are sitting in a restaurant in Battery Park, which is on the south side of the island of Manhattan. Morgan tells me that it ...

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Chapter Five—Death by Yelp

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Jan 2017

“This was just amazing.” Morgan Taketa says after wiping his lips with a cloth napkin that was hand-sewn by my best friend, Risa. He still ...

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Chapter Four—Deep Like the Rivers

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Dec 2016

Deep’s Butcher Shop in East Harlem is nothing like the ones I’ve seen in other parts of New York City. Yes, there’s ...
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