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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

  • By multiple authors
  • 15 Dec 2016 - 17 Oct 2019

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column is a space for the Nikkei community to share stories through diverse writings on culture ...
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Nikkei Chronicles #8 — Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

  • By multiple authors
  • 7 May 2019 - 15 Oct 2019

Submissions for Nikkei Heroes closed on September 30. Thank you very much to everyone who submitted stories! Read the Nikkei ...
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My Name is Neal

  • By Neal Yamamoto
  • 24 Nov 2007 - 12 Oct 2019

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent.
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Nikkei View

  • By Gil Asakawa
  • 3 Dec 2009 - 9 Oct 2019

This series presents selections from Gil Asakawa’s “Nikkei View: The Asian American Blog,” which presents a Japanese American perspective ...
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Yoemon Shinmasu – My Grandfather's Life in Seattle

  • By Ikuo Shinmasu
  • 26 Jun 2019 - 25 Sep 2019

This is a series on the life of Yoemon Shinmasu, an Issei immigrant from a small fishing village in Yamaguchi ...
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Canadian Nikkei Artist

  • By Norm Masaji Ibuki
  • 28 May 2019 - 24 Sep 2019

Canadian Nikkei Artist series will focus on those in the Japanese Canadian community who are actively involved in the ongoing ...
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Killer Roll

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Oct 2018 - 4 Sep 2019

Maki Mitchell, one of the few female Japanese chefs in the world, works at Yudai’s Corner, a sushi bar ...
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Power of Our Stories

  • By Kate Iio
  • 30 Aug 2019 - 30 Aug 2019

This series features projects that help to preserve and share Nikkei stories in different ways—through blogs, websites, social media ...
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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

  • By Takako Day
  • 27 Mar 2019 - 20 Aug 2019

This series tells the stories of Japanese and Japanese Americans in Chicago and the Midwest prior to and during World ...
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Tessaku

  • By Emiko Tsuchida
  • 19 Dec 2016 - 24 Jun 2019

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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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest VI

  • By multiple authors
  • 17 May 2019 - 31 May 2019

The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s sixth-short story contest concluded with an Awards Reception held on the evening of Thursday ...
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The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier

  • By Junko Yoshida
  • 18 Mar 2019 - 8 May 2019

It was 150 years ago that the first Japanese settlers arrived on the American mainland, establishing the first Japanese colony ...
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Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest V

  • By multiple authors
  • 17 Apr 2019 - 1 May 2019

The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s fifth-short story contest concluded with an Awards Reception held on the evening of Thursday ...
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Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul

  • By Ross M. Levine
  • 11 Jan 2019 - 15 Feb 2019

Wakako Yamauchi, who died in August 2018 at age 93, was a Nisei playwright whose most celebrated work, And the ...
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Hapa Music is Black and Brown

  • By Sonia C. Gomez
  • 29 Jan 2019 - 29 Jan 2019

“Hapa Music is Black and Brown” is a blog series that looks at the racial politics of multicultural Japanese American ...
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The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

  • By Stanley Kirk
  • 26 Nov 2018 - 7 Jan 2019

This series is about the life history of Mikio Ibuki, a second generation Nikkei who was born in Vancouver. He ...
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Canadian Nikkei Series

  • By Norm Masaji Ibuki
  • 13 Mar 2014 - 20 Nov 2018

The inspiration for this new Canadian Nikkei interview series is the observance that the gulf between the pre-WW2 Japanese Canadian ...
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Nikkei Chronicles #7 — Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

  • By multiple authors
  • 8 Jun 2018 - 26 Oct 2018

Stories in the Nikkei Chronicles series have explored many of the ways that Nikkei express their unique culture, whether through ...
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The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations

  • By Richard Murakami,  Lisa Nakamura
  • 3 Sep 2018 - 25 Sep 2018

In the summer months, many people take pilgrimages to the sites of where there were Japanese American concentration camps during ...
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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Sep 2017 - 4 Aug 2018

LAPD bicycle cop Ellie Rush, first introduced in Murder on Bamboo Lane (Berkley, 2014), returns in this special serial for ...
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