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“Anti-Chinese sentiment is on the rise yet again, especially since 2020 with the COVID-19…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 29, 2024

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No. 43 The Footsteps of a Third Generation Japanese American Fighting Through Art — Reading "Nobuko Miyamoto's Autobiography"

Nobuko Miyamoto, a third-generation Japanese-American, has had what is commonly called a "life…

Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 26, 2024

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39th Racism: Structural Discrimination

Read "Racism in America" Even today, discrimination and conflict over "race" c…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 10, 2023

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WTF — Not the What, Why, or When, It’s the How

With the publication of the memoir ac•tiv•ist, Warren T. Furutani has proven that he ca…

Martha Nakagawa • Sept. 4, 2023

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An Inquiry into the Kibei-Nisei ‘Diasporic Experiences’

I feel a close kinship with this remarkable book by Michael R. Jin. In 2013, I was privileged to re…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 1, 2023

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Book review: Beyond the Betrayal, The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

Yoshito Kuromiya was one of 63 Nisei who resisted being drafted during World War II from the Heart …

Pamela A. Okano • March 31, 2023

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Part 16: The story of the ships that carried immigrants: "The history of Japanese immigration as seen through ships"

Unlike today, when overseas travel is by plane, in the past, it was common for people to travel by …

Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 23, 2022

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Book Review: Norifumi Kawahara, "Historical Geography of Japanese Fisheries Immigrants in Canada"

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Chisa Matsunaga • Sept. 21, 2022

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‘Brilliant’ Work Relies on Oral Histories of Japanese American Hibakusha

In 1974, Betty Mitson and I co-edited a modest and virtually self-published and crudely fabricated …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 17, 2022

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Book Review: Not Yo’ Butterfly by Nobuko Miyamoto

“Growing up Asian in America, we had the songs of our ancestors, but we no longer understoo…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Feb. 25, 2022

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Book Review—White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

No. 43 The Footsteps of a Third Generation Japanese American Fighting Through Art — Reading "Nobuko Miyamoto's Autobiography"

39th Racism: Structural Discrimination

WTF — Not the What, Why, or When, It’s the How

An Inquiry into the Kibei-Nisei ‘Diasporic Experiences’

Book review: Beyond the Betrayal, The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

Part 16: The story of the ships that carried immigrants: "The history of Japanese immigration as seen through ships"

Book Review: Norifumi Kawahara, "Historical Geography of Japanese Fisheries Immigrants in Canada"

‘Brilliant’ Work Relies on Oral Histories of Japanese American Hibakusha

Book Review: Not Yo’ Butterfly by Nobuko Miyamoto