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Quiet Warriors

  • By Mikiko Hatch-Amagai
  • 26 Jan 2021 - 26 Jan 2021

On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. Almost ...
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From Vancouver's Powell St. to Toronto: Kay Mende’s Remarkable Life

  • By Katsuyo "Kay" Mende
  • 10 Jan 2021 - 24 Jan 2021

Katsuyo "Kay" Mende, a Canadian-Nisei, was born in Vancouver, B.C. on July 3, 1926. She wrote an account of ...
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My Name is Neal

  • By Neal Yamamoto
  • 24 Nov 2007 - 23 Jan 2021

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent.
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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

  • By multiple authors
  • 15 Dec 2016 - 21 Jan 2021

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column is a space for the Nikkei community to share stories through diverse writings on culture ...
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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • By multiple authors
  • 9 Apr 2020 - 15 Jan 2021

In Japanese, kizuna means strong emotional bonds. In 2011, we invited our global Nikkei community to contribute to a special ...
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Ten Days of Cleanup

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Dec 2020 - 4 Jan 2021

Hiroko Houki, the proprietor of the cleaning business, Souji RS, reluctantly agrees to take on a mysterious client who wants ...
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Tessaku

  • By Emiko Tsuchida
  • 19 Dec 2016 - 31 Dec 2020

Tessaku was the name of a short-lived magazine published at the Tule Lake concentration camp during World War II. It ...
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Power of Our Stories

  • By multiple authors
  • 30 Aug 2019 - 22 Dec 2020

This series features projects that help to preserve and share Nikkei stories in different ways—through blogs, websites, social media ...
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Nikkei View

  • By Gil Asakawa
  • 3 Dec 2009 - 7 Dec 2020

This series presents selections from Gil Asakawa’s “Nikkei View: The Asian American Blog,” which presents a Japanese American perspective ...
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Canadian Nikkei Artist

  • By Norm Masaji Ibuki
  • 28 May 2019 - 1 Dec 2020

Canadian Nikkei Artist series will focus on those in the Japanese Canadian community who are actively involved in the ongoing ...
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Nikkei Chronicles #9—More Than a Game: Nikkei Sports

  • By multiple authors
  • 7 Jul 2020 - 16 Nov 2020

What makes Nikkei sports more than just a game for you? Perhaps you’d like to write about your Nikkei ...
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Robert Walker Irwin (1844–1925)

  • By Philbert Ono
  • 11 Oct 2020 - 8 Nov 2020

Robert Walker Irwin, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, was appointed by King David Kalakaua as Hawaiian Minister to Japan to ...
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Silk

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Nov 2019 - 4 Oct 2020

Not much is known about the women of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony, including Jou Schnell, the Japanese ...
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Gifts from Jichan and Bachan

  • By Susan Yamamura
  • 7 May 2020 - 16 Sep 2020

This series began as an annotated catalogue of the magical gifts I’ve received from Jichan and Bachan, Nisaku and ...
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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest VII

  • By multiple authors
  • 24 Jul 2020 - 14 Aug 2020

Each year, the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little ...
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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II

  • By Grant Din
  • 17 Mar 2015 - 5 Jun 2020

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF), thanks in large part to a grant from the Japanese American Confinement Sites program ...
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Yoemon Shinmasu – My Grandfather’s Life in Seattle

  • By Ikuo Shinmasu
  • 26 Jun 2019 - 27 May 2020

This is a series on the life of Yoemon Shinmasu, an Issei immigrant from a small fishing village in Yamaguchi ...
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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba

  • By Stanley Kirk
  • 9 Mar 2020 - 20 Apr 2020

This series tells the life history of Takeshi (‘Tak’) Matsuba, a second-generation Japanese Canadian born in Vancouver to immigrants from ...
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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Kazuko Makihara

  • By Stanley Kirk
  • 25 Oct 2019 - 22 Nov 2019

This series presents the life history of Kazuko Makihara, a second-generation Japanese Canadian who was born and raised near Vancouver ...
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Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

  • By multiple authors
  • 7 May 2019 - 18 Oct 2019

The word “hero” can mean different things to different people. For this series, we have explored the idea of a ...