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In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon
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Japanese American National Museum Magazine
Japanese American National Museum Store Online
Japanese Christians in Chicago
Japanese community in Colonia Urquiza, Partido de La Plata
Japanese Community in the Amazon
Japanese Companies Active in Brazil Today
Japanese education across the ocean
Japanese in Chicago before the war
Japanese laborers at the San Nicolás hacienda (1899-1924)
Japanese media in the United States
Japanese Migrants facing Criminal Justice in Mexico
Japanese people beyond the Andes
Japanese society in the Amazon jungle
Japanese Time ~History of Japanese Radio Broadcasting~ {Los Angeles Edition}
Japanese Time ~History of Japanese Radio Broadcasting~ {Seattle Edition}
Japanese Time ~History of Japanese Radio Broadcasting~ {Vancouver, Prewar Edition}
Japanese Women in Chicago
Japan in the World and the World
Japan Journal
JET Tales from Aomori
Kibalamba in the Land of Samba! ~The 100-Year History of Brazilian Amami Immigration~
Killer Roll
Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
Koji's Column
Lilly Krohn: Out of Suffering Have Emerged the Strongest Souls
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Much Mahalos
My Name is Neal
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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
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People on the Move: Postwar Return to America and Postwar Japanese Immigrants
Power of Our Stories
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Reading Japanese American Literature
Rereading "The Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States" - Tracing the Records of the Pioneers
Research on Japanese American Literary Magazines: Focusing on Japanese Language Magazines
Robert Walker Irwin (1844–1925)
Sawtelle Stories: On the Naming of “Sawtelle Japantown”
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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago
Ten Days of Cleanup
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The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier
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The Multiple Identities of the Nikkei Community
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The Nihongo Papers
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The Power of Irei
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The Real Lives of Origami Figures
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The United States Vs. Takaichi Sakai
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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Voices of Chicago
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: The Bonds Created by a Shared Language
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