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Japanese people who "don't know about Japan" In October 2023, when I participated in…

Keiko Fukuda • Feb. 5, 2024

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In American Dream

There are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories. Historians, novelists, and artists o…

Esther Newman • Nov. 27, 2023

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Ancestry and Toxicity: Breaking Free From Old Patterns and Toxic Relationships

When “unconditional loyalty” goes wrong... Over the years of putting together the piec…

Tuney-Tosheia P. McDaniels • March 20, 2023

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125 Years after the First Japanese Immigration to Mexico: The Soul of Relations between Mexico and Japan - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> From the End of World War II to the Founding of the Japanese-Mexican Sc…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • Oct. 6, 2022

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Excerpt from Two Nails, One Love

I’m not the type to wallow in a bad situation. I’m more apt to pack my things and mov…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 3, 2021

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Keeping Family Ties

For some of us, an unexpected side effect of COVID-19 has been the increased importance of relation…

Merton Chinen • May 3, 2021

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Farms of the Future: The Work of Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> The incarceration experience left a deep impression on Hewes. He later recoun…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 22, 2021

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

Meeting the Kumamoto Relatives

My first trip to Japan was in the summer of 2016. I was very nervous about meeting my recently-disc…

Edna Horiuchi • Oct. 19, 2018

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

Measures to strengthen cooperation between Japanese descendants in Latin America and Japan

Since the inauguration of the second Abe Cabinet at the end of 2012, the Prime Minister has been pr…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Aug. 4, 2017

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A New Home For Japan’s Cherry Blossom Trees In Hawaii?

Japanese Botanist Sees Potential in the Islands I stare out at the cherry blossomsIn marvel an…

Gwen Battad Ishikawa • May 13, 2015

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Megumi Mizutani, who connects the sister city relationship between California and Japan