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Jazz Twist on Traditional Japanese Music Creates a New Musical Genre
The children of Japanese-Americans who emigrated to the United States generations ago commonly acqu…

Rachelle Cano • Oct. 27, 2011

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arts drum folk songs jazz Kodo (musical group) music songs taiko
arts drum folk songs jazz Kodo (musical group) music songs taiko
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The Multifaceted Eye: Working to Realize the Dream
William Arthur Ward, scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher once said, “If you can imagi…

Yolantha Harrison-Pace • Oct. 6, 2011

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artists arts California generations immigration Japanese Americans Los Angeles Mike Saijo postwar San Gabriel Valley Shin-Nisei United States World War II
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PJ & Roy Hirabayashi, 2011 National Heritage Fellows
This September 2011, PJ and Roy Hirabayshi, who led San Jose Taiko for over 35 years, were formally…

Sojin Kim • Sept. 29, 2011

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2010s California drum National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowships PJ Hirabayashi Roy Hirabayashi San Jose San Jose Taiko taiko United States
2010s California drum National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowships PJ Hirabayashi Roy Hirabayashi San Jose San Jose Taiko taiko United States
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Issei Pioneers - Hawaii and the Mainland 1885-1924 - Part 21
Read Part 20 >>THE CREATIVE SPIRITDespite the rigors of daily life, the Issei found time for …

Akemi Kikumura Yano • May 23, 2011

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acting actors artists arts dance entertainers Henry Sugimoto Issei Pioneers (exhibition) Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) music Sesshū Hayakawa Toyo Miyatake
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YAMA: A Nikkei Community in Brazil - Part 3
Read part 2 >>  In 1990 I made my first trip to Community Yuba pregnant with hope. The …

Janet Ikeda • May 13, 2011

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agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
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YAMA: A Nikkei Community in Brazil - Part 2
Read part 1 >>  At Yama, where farming, daily reverence, and art converge, the ide…

Janet Ikeda • May 6, 2011

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agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
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YAMA: A Nikkei Community in Brazil - Part 1
Read the introduction to the Yama Project > YAMA: Embrace the ordinary and nurture a spirit of …

Janet Ikeda • April 29, 2011

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agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
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The Yama Project
Introduction to the Yama ProjectThis project is a documentary of a Japanese farming and arts commun…

Janet Ikeda • April 22, 2011

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agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
agriculture arts Brazil farming haiku literature photography poetry São Paulo Scott Smith Yama Project Yuba Community Yuba Farm
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APA Spotlight
Rick Shiomi, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts
Rick Shiomi has been one of the leaders of the Asian American theater movement for over twenty-five…

Koji Steven Sakai • Feb. 8, 2011

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arts performing arts Rick Shiomi theater Theater Mu
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Voices of Chicago
Do You Know Kung Fu? - Part 2
>> Part 1The summer after 4th grade, 1971, it was somehow decided that my older sister, my yo…

Larry Wiley • Jan. 12, 2011

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Chicago combat families hapa Illinois judo martial arts racially mixed people United States
Chicago combat families hapa Illinois judo martial arts racially mixed people United States
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