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Ginyu Igei arrived in Peru with the halo of sensei. A teacher in his native Okinawa, the 26-year-o…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 18, 2023

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Ginyu Igei, the life of a sensei in Peru that inspires a play in Okinawa

Ginyu Igei, the sensei and patriarch of the Nikkei community in Peru, has a life story to tell and …

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato • Oct. 28, 2019

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Issei in New York, 1876 – 1941

The first Japanese immigrants to New York were quite different from their West Coast counterparts. …

Eiichiro Azuma • July 7, 2014

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Changing the “Everyday” Asian Image: Behind the Scenes of "Marvels & Monsters"

“It was amazing,” Alexandra Chang of New York University (NYU) recalls. “My first…

Darryl Mori • Jan. 21, 2014

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Five Places That Can Make a Hapa Feel at Home in NYC

For the first six years of my life, I was convinced that the United States and Japan were literally…

Leah Nanako Winkler • July 6, 2010

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A Day in a Life of a Not Quite New York Hapa Who Is Told She Looks Like Winnie Cooper From The Wonder Years

8:15 a.m. Alarm. Cotton mouth. The side effects of the sertaline (a Zoloft generic bec…

Leah Nanako Winkler • Feb. 15, 2010

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On Isolation

I saw her picture on my computer screen after I pseudo-accidentally hacked into my boyfriend’…

Leah Nanako Winkler • Nov. 18, 2009

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The Hapa Advantage

“Hybrids are better”—Shayne KaoFor as long as I’ve lived here, New York Cit…

Leah Nanako Winkler • July 24, 2009

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Am I Unstable? Or am I just a Hapa?

I have an early memory of a “bowing war” that occurred between my Japanese grandmother …

Leah Nanako Winkler • March 6, 2009

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Justin Baldwin hands me a business card. He is endearingly tense as he begrudgingly mingles at a be…

Leah Nanako Winkler • Jan. 29, 2009

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Ginyu Igei: the teacher, the lighthouse