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Chris Cheng is of Japanese and Chinese decent, whose Japanese side hails from Cuba. Chris visited Cuba for one month in 2006 to research the Japanese Cuban community for a master's research project. He was the first person in his family to return to Cuba since the last of his family left in 1971. Chris obtained a full list of Japanese interned in Cuba during World War II, and has one of the only known translations from Japanese into English. He works at Square, Inc and previously at Google, Inc in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Updated August 2016