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History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 3: Postwar Community Revitalization and Redress Movement

Read Part 2 >> As a historian, Izumi says that the ongoing use of euphemistic language to …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 18, 2023

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History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 2: Japanese American vs Japanese Canadian Internment/Incarceration

Read Part 1 >> Izumi first learned about the Japanese American incarceration experience in 1…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 11, 2023

academics (persons) biographies China colonization Doshisha University Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Kyoto (city) Manchuria Masumi Izumi Pacific Ocean scholars universities World War II

History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 1: Family Background

I had the honour of interviewing History Professor Masumi Izumi earlier this year. Dr. Izumi is …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 4, 2023

academics (persons) biographies China colonization Doshisha University Japanese Americans Japanese Canadians Kyoto (city) Manchuria Masumi Izumi Pacific Ocean scholars universities World War II

Part 17: Third generation Chinese orphans confused about their roots

Diplomatic relations between Japan and China were established in 1972. This September marks 50 year…

Ryusuke Kawai • Oct. 28, 2022

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A record of my mother, born in Manchuria, who returned to Japan after the war

Part 1: Life in Manchuria

"Maybe he was a Japanese orphan." When I was in high school, people called "Chinese …

Keiko Fukuda • Oct. 5, 2022

China Manchuria prewar

Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30

Vini Taguchi: A Civil Engineer for Social Justice—Part 1

Vinicius “Vini” Taguchi personifies the cross cultural, interconnected reach of today&r…

Esther Newman • July 27, 2022

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The deep relationship between postwar immigration and war in Brazil as seen through personal histories

Brazil, which currently boasts the world's largest Japanese community at 2 million, also began …

Masayuki Fukasawa • July 26, 2021

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“Escape from Manchuria” chronicles a forgotten chapter of WWII history

Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave an unprecedented radio address at noon 65 years ago today, on August…

Gil Asakawa • Aug. 16, 2011

China Manchuria World War II

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