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

Keiko Fukuda • Feb. 5, 2024

California California-Japan Sister Cities Network (organization) culture international relations Japan Japanese culture Kyushu Megumi Mizutani Saga Prefecture Sebastopol sister cities Takeo (city) United States U.S.-Japan relations

Oshōgatsu Japanese-Brazilian

You know the Oshōgatsu is coming when many people schedule the Bōnenkai, at least here in Brazil. T…

Meiry Mayumi Onohara • Jan. 1, 2024

Brazil fireworks New Year Oshogatsu

The Nakashima Process Book: A New Book By Mira Nakashima, The Daughter of Famed Woodworker George Nakashima

“Instead of a long-running and bloody battle with nature, to dominate her, we can walk in…

Tai Bickhard • Dec. 4, 2023

artists George Nakashima Mira Nakashima

Journal Entry #78.79 Years: "This Mortal Coil..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Jan. 21, 2023

cartoonists cartoons humor life work

Japanese media in the United States

11th Japanese TV Connecting Generations: "Japan Hollywood Network"

The maximum number of viewers was 850,000. When I moved from Japan to Los Angeles 30 years ago, I d…

Keiko Fukuda • Dec. 21, 2022

California Japanese Japan Hollywood Network (TV station) Los Angeles United States

Bill Watanabe - From Manzanar to Little Tokyo

Hundreds of families and individuals sleep in safe, clean, affordable homes in neighborhoods around…

Raymond Douglas Chong • Nov. 4, 2022

Bill Watanabe California concentration camps Little Tokyo Little Tokyo Service Center (organization) Los Angeles Manzanar concentration camp social work United States World War II camps

Kunimitsu Nagatori, who moved to the U.S. in 1960 and has been running a farm in Oxnard since 1965, runs Nagatori Farms.

Returned to the U.S. after a short period of agricultural labor So far, we have interviewed the ow…

Keiko Fukuda • April 13, 2022

agricultural laborers California generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Nagatoshi Farm Oxnard postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II

What were WRA Forms #2 through #19?

I started volunteering at the Japanese American National Museum in 2000. I immediately took advanta…

James K. Tanaka • Dec. 3, 2020

Form WRA-26 imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans War Relocation Work Corps World War II

Journal Entry #2020 Production: "Static Work Habits..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Jan. 11, 2020

artists cartoonists cartoons humor work

Yoshiki Nagahama of One Okinawa - Media connecting Okinawan people

Colonia Okinawa The web magazine One Okinawa opened on October 30, 2019 as “a web media conn…

Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 6, 2020

Bolivia digital magazines identity Japan Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture One Okinawa (magazine) social networks Uchinanchu

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