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The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations
In the summer months, many people take pilgrimages to the sites of where there were Japanese American concentration camps during …

Richard Hicks +3 • Sept. 3, 2018 - Sept. 25, 2018


Bayonets and bulldozers: Isahama immigrants whose beautiful fields were stolen by the U.S. military
On July 19, 1955, ten years after the end of the war, the land and even the houses in Isahama, …

Rikuto Yamagata • July 23, 2018 - Aug. 20, 2018


The Other Side of Honolulu: Being Welcomed by Hawaii's Japanese Community
I have always dreamed of going to Hawaii since I was in elementary school, and now I am working in …

Seiji Kawasaki • July 21, 2014 - Aug. 17, 2018


Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery
LAPD bicycle cop Ellie Rush, first introduced in Murder on Bamboo Lane (Berkley, 2014), returns in this special serial for …

Naomi Hirahara • Sept. 4, 2017 - Aug. 4, 2018


A true story “Brides in America”
This series traces back the life stories of women in a wide range of generations from a Japanese woman who …

Keiko Fukuda • June 30, 2016 - June 18, 2018


Family Histories in Seattle’s Nikkei Community
This series explores family histories from Seattle’s Nikkei community. Two Seattle University students, Sharon Ideguchi and Minami Hasegawa, worked together …

Sharon Ideguchi • May 28, 2018 - June 15, 2018


A Japanese Canadian Child-Exile: The Life History of Basil Izumi
This series is the life history of Basil Tadashi Izumi, who was born into a Japanese Canadian Anglican family in …

Stan Kirk • April 24, 2018 - June 5, 2018


Japanese Community in the Amazon
This is a journal that talks about the Japanese community in the Amazon from the perspective of volunteers, from various …

Asako Sakamoto • June 3, 2015 - Feb. 1, 2018


In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon
In 1993, the Japanese American National Museum organized In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon, one …

Eiichiro Azuma • Oct. 23, 2017 - Dec. 11, 2017


Reading Japanese American Literature
We will read literary works that intersect between Japan and America, such as novels written by Japanese Americans, works that …

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 24, 2017 - Nov. 10, 2017


Sawtelle Stories: On the Naming of “Sawtelle Japantown”
In 2015, the Sawtelle neighborhood in West Los Angeles was officially named “Sawtelle Japantown” with approval from the Los Angeles …

Yukikazu Nagashima • Aug. 25, 2016 - Nov. 7, 2017


Nikkei Chronicles #6—Itadakimasu 2! Another Taste of Nikkei Culture
How does the food you eat express your identity? How does food help to connect your community and bring people …

Linda Cooper +20 • June 1, 2017 - Oct. 10, 2017


4th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s fourth short story contest concluded with an Awards Reception held on the evening of Thursday, …

Elizabeth Farris +1 • Sept. 11, 2017 - Sept. 13, 2017


3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s third short story contest has concluded with more creative stories related to the Little Tokyo …

Yuriko Chavez +4 • Sept. 12, 2016 - Aug. 23, 2017


As You Like It
Kaori, 26, is part of an okonomiyaki family dynasty in Hiroshima. A regional specialty, okonomiyaki, literally meaning “as you iike …

Naomi Hirahara • Sept. 4, 2016 - Aug. 4, 2017


Japanese society in the Amazon jungle
The author, Toshimi Tsuruta, was dispatched as a volunteer to Manaus, Amazonas, where many Japanese people live. On the other …

Toshimi Tsuruta • June 23, 2015 - April 12, 2017


Exploring the world of "No No Boy"
No-No Boy is a novel written by John Okada, a second-generation Japanese-American who lived in the United States during the …

Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 22, 2016 - Feb. 10, 2017


The Real Lives of Origami Figures
My mother taught me how to fold when I was a kid, and I've been folding ever since. Origami figures …

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura • May 7, 2014 - Dec. 14, 2016


Nikkei Heritage
This series republishes selected articles from Nikkei Heritage, the quarterly journal of the National Japanese American Historical Society in San …

Margaret Bacon +34 • Sept. 29, 2005 - Oct. 26, 2016


Nikkei Chronicles #5—Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture
Arigato, baka, sushi, benjo, and shoyu—how often have you used these words? In an informal survey conducted in 2010, we …

Silvia Lumy Akioka +22 • June 1, 2016 - Oct. 13, 2016


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