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Bunji Omura – New York Japanese Antifascist Writer and Publicist

Although the saga of the Issei generation has been written by a number of historians, our understanding the views of Issei writers and thinkers on ...

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Japanese Canadian Art in the Time of Covid-19 - Part 4

Read Part 3 >> So, here we are entering fall 2020 and the second wave of Covid-19 is upon Canada…. the inevitable has arrived. So, from ...

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T. John Fujii: Expatriate or Collaborator? - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> T. John Fujii’s career in wartime Singapore, as discussed in his book Singapore Assignment, offers a stark lesson in the ambiguity ...

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T. John Fujii: Expatriate or Collaborator? - Part 1

The story of Tatsuki John Fujii, a journeyman writer and journalist who was one of the earliest Nisei book authors, offers a rich illustration of ...

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Hiroichiro Maedako’s Chicago - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> 5. Floyd Dell Floyd Dell, an Illinoian and editor of Friday Literary Review, a weekly supplement of The Chicago Evening Post, also ...

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Hiroichiro Maedako’s Chicago - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> 3. Suicidal temptations and rebirth By June 1909, having lost hope and with no meaning to his life, Maedako attempted to commit ...

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Hiroichiro Maedako’s Chicago - Part 1

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, once proclaimed “America’s most influential proletarian novel,”1 was translated into the Japanese language by proletariat writer Hiroichiro Maedako ...

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Kikou Yamata: Rediscovering the First Nisei Writer

Throughout the 20th century, Nikkei writers have dreamed of writing “the Great Nisei novel,” a work of literature that would express the Japanese/American experience ...

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Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

Mine Okubo

The artist Mine Okubo is most famous for her book, Citizen 13660, a graphic memoir of the Japanese American concentration camps. She became my hero ...

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The Art of Being Japanese Canadian

Human life – indeed all life – is poetry. It’s we who live it, unconsciously, day by day, like scenes in a play, yet in its ...