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Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

Kenji Igei, the Peruvian Nikkei singer-songwriter with Uchinanchu inspiration

“This is a story that goes beyond my own history, it goes back to my ancestors, to my roots, but it…

Roger Jesús Gonzales Araki • Oct. 9, 2018

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International Nikkei Day - June 20, 2018

A while back I saw in a Nikkei related facebook page that two young men, Andrés Higa fr…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • July 31, 2018

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Thanks to life

When he turned 72 in 2013, Samuel Matsuda Nishimura published a book titled Thank You, Thank You V…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 9, 2018

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Yoshihiro Toume, who connects Uchinanchu around the world from his base in Los Angeles

Planning a food event at a U.S. military base in Okinawa I think it was around 2005 when I first me…

Keiko Fukuda • April 7, 2017

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Scholars Showcase Future of Diverse Nikkei Community

During my involvement in Japanese American studies, from 1972 to the present, I have been struck …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Nov. 1, 2016

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Nikkei Chronicles #5—Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

How I Found Out I Was Uchinānchu (Okinawan)

I lived a peaceful life with my grandparents on the 11th block of Arnaldo Márquez street i…

Javier Takara • Aug. 31, 2016

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Nikkei disappeared in Argentina: “17 stories kept in memory”

The 17 missing members of the Japanese community (Part II) — The “Aparecidos” Japanese from the Santa Lucía school

Read part I >> The faces of Seikichi Gushiken and María Arasaki in front of the family altar …

Juan Andrés Asato • Aug. 15, 2016

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Miyuki Arakaki, uchinanchu feeling

The silence shocked him. I had never experienced anything like this before. Accustomed to the hustl…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Aug. 3, 2016

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Eduardo Tokeshi: A Portrait of Curiosity

His gaze conceals a reality that he has transformed into art. Eduardo Tokeshi, born in Lima in 19…

Javier García Wong-Kit • March 21, 2016

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Nikkei Chronicles #4—Nikkei Family: Memories, Traditions, and Values

From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again

I am a Hapa, Yonsei Uchinanchu (a mixed-race, 4th-generation Okinawan-American) who was born in Riv…

Laura Kina • Sept. 18, 2015

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