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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Encircle, In Dance

For this month's Nikkei Uncovered, we wave goodbye to the Obon season with special reflections from a family of activist/artists and a local ...

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デカセギ・ストーリー

第二十九話　デカセギの歌

エリックとエミリーは双子の兄妹。5歳のときに両親が離婚し、父親がふたりを引き取った。その２年後、父親が日本へ働きに行くことになり ...

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A Chiura Obata Painting Comes “Home” to Topaz

“It feels right,” says Jane Beckwith, director of the Topaz Museum in Utah. “It feels like the painting is coming home.” She is talking about ...

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Interview with Hiroshi Onaka, Design Executive Officer of EnLinx Partners

On July 30, Japanese martial art Shorinji Kempo will hold its world championships in the U.S. for the first time. We talked with Hiroshi ...

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Iwasaki Family of Salt Spring Island

Ray Torao Iwasaki was born in Ganges, B.C. in 1933 and he lived an idyllic life on Salt Spring Island in the Gulf Islands ...

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Mi mamá, un destino producto de la solidaridad nikkei

Esta es la historia de mi mamá, sus padres vinieron de Okinawa, ellos eran de Yonabaru, en realidad yo no sé en qué barco fue ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #About 13-15 Years Old: "Quizzical Thoughts..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Teenage Ponderings…” Check back every weekend for subsequent entries…

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The Forgotten History of Japanese American designers' World War II internment - Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR's executive order - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Textile artist Kay Sekimachi and her mother and sister were taken by bus to Tanforan Assembly Center. In an oral history at ...

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日系アメリカ文学を読む

第12回 『きらきら』、『七つの月』

時代は1950年代から60年代、舞台は南部ジョージア州や中央部のアーカンソー州など。そこで日系人の家族がどんなふうに暮らしていたのか、子供たちは自分たちのことをどう思い、周りの人や景色をどう感じていたのか ...

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The Forgotten History of Japanese American designers' World War II internment - Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR's executive order - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> As the introductory text to “Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center” is careful to note, Noguchi’s wartime experience was ...