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Introduction Kota Mizutani grew up in rural Sonoma County, California, where he gradually became aware of Japanese American traditions that surrounded him as a child; …
It took two attempts to bring the first gift of cherry trees to the United States from Japan. The first shipment of 2,000 trees in …
Japanese Botanist Sees Potential in the Islands I stare out at the cherry blossomsIn marvel and joy I watch them bloomThen they burst out with …
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For my father, Nisei playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi, the journey up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the heart of Washington, D.C. …
Read part 1 >>REVISITING THE PASTIt took a visit to a cemetery in his father’s hometown in Hawaii—where he learned that his middle name commemorated …
Little Tokyo one of my favorite places feels like I’ve come home when my mom was young my grandfather took her thereto eat Chinese food we went …
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