On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. Almost ...
Katsuyo "Kay" Mende, a Canadian-Nisei, was born in Vancouver, B.C. on July 3, 1926. She wrote an account of ...
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent.
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column is a space for the Nikkei community to share stories through diverse writings on culture ...
In Japanese, kizuna means strong emotional bonds. In 2011, we invited our global Nikkei community to contribute to a special ...
Hiroko Houki, the proprietor of the cleaning business, Souji RS, reluctantly agrees to take on a mysterious client who wants ...
Tessaku was the name of a short-lived magazine published at the Tule Lake concentration camp during World War II. It ...
This series features projects that help to preserve and share Nikkei stories in different ways—through blogs, websites, social media ...
This series presents selections from Gil Asakawa’s “Nikkei View: The Asian American Blog,” which presents a Japanese American perspective ...
Canadian Nikkei Artist series will focus on those in the Japanese Canadian community who are actively involved in the ongoing ...
What makes Nikkei sports more than just a game for you? Perhaps you’d like to write about your Nikkei ...
Robert Walker Irwin, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, was appointed by King David Kalakaua as Hawaiian Minister to Japan to ...
Not much is known about the women of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony, including Jou Schnell, the Japanese ...
This series began as an annotated catalogue of the magical gifts I’ve received from Jichan and Bachan, Nisaku and ...
Each year, the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little ...
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF), thanks in large part to a grant from the Japanese American Confinement Sites program ...
This is a series on the life of Yoemon Shinmasu, an Issei immigrant from a small fishing village in Yamaguchi ...
This series tells the life history of Takeshi (‘Tak’) Matsuba, a second-generation Japanese Canadian born in Vancouver to immigrants from ...
This series presents the life history of Kazuko Makihara, a second-generation Japanese Canadian who was born and raised near Vancouver ...
The word “hero” can mean different things to different people. For this series, we have explored the idea of a ...
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