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A Union of Artists: Kimi Gengo and Bunji Tagawa - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Kimi Gengo Tagawa achieved early renown for her poetry, winning prizes and publishing a volume of verse while still in her twenties ...

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Crónicas Nikkei #9—Más Que un Juego: Deportes Nikkei

El mundo de Marcela Castillo Tokumori

2019 es el segundo mejor año de la carrera deportiva de Marcela Castillo Tokumori. En los Juegos Panamericanos de Lima ganó la medalla de ...

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A Union of Artists: Kimi Gengo and Bunji Tagawa - Part 1

One useful study for understanding Japanese American history would focus on “power couples,” that is, spouses or long-term romantic partners who are both accomplished figures ...

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Kizuna 2020: Bondad y solidaridad nikkei durante la pandemia de COVID-19

Pilates Keeps Centenarian Healthy During Quarantine

TORONTO — On Nisei Masako Okawara‘s birthday, she looked out the window to see her two granddaughters and their families in the parking lot of ...

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Los usos y abusos de la memoria: formas de olvidar y recordar la persecución de las comunidades japonesas

En el año de 2012 el historiador John W. Dower publicó un libro con diversos ensayos sobre la historia y las relaciones entre Estados ...

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ブラジル水泳界の英雄・岡本哲夫：日伯交流から生まれた奇跡

第２回 日本移民受難の時代に曙光

第1回を読む ＞＞ 1942年１月、リオで行われた米国主導の汎米外相会議で、アルゼンチンをのぞく南米10カ国が対枢軸国経済断交を決議、ブラジル政府も同29日に枢軸国と国交断絶を宣言した ...

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The Pulitzer Prize and Japanese Americans in the South

As with other tragic chapters in United States history, the incarceration of Japanese Americans has had a lasting legacy on American culture. While the history ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #From 1908: "Inspired by 'Fantasmagorie'..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "Why Cartoons are Better than Reality" Check back every ...

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孤独な望郷 ～ フロリダ日系移民森上助次の手紙から

第35回 土地を寄付、将来公園になるという　

南フロリダの大和コロニーの一員として渡米、コロニー解体後もひとり最後まで現地にとどまり生涯を終えた森上助次は、戦後、夫（助次の弟 ...

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Kizuna 2020: Bondad y solidaridad nikkei durante la pandemia de COVID-19

George Freeth, the Village of Maikura, and the 1918-1920 Pandemic

In December 1908, at the age of 25, the “father of surfing” George Freeth saved the lives of nine Japanese American and two Russian American ...