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Yoemon Shinmasu – My Grandfather's Life in Seattle

Part 5 – Barbershop business in its heyday

In Part 4, I shared how Yoemon’s Seattle-born children were left with Yoemon’s parents in Kamai and how Atae was brought back to ...

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The Redundancy of Idiots — Part 1

My wife and I have noticed over several years now that certain terms in Japanese have English words accompanying them with the same meaning. Thereby ...

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Técnica e arte japonesas dão formas e beleza à argila em Cunha

Conhecimentos adquiridos no Japão quando usados em argila têm o poder de criar, transformar. O nissei Marcelo Yoshinori Tokai, 46 anos, dedica-se justamente ...

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“A Pacific Ocean For The Entire World”—The Panama Canal and Its Nikkei Ties to the Pacific Northwest

“The little package of questions for which your parents don’t have answers,” says Mizu Sugimura, “they will give to you.” Sugimura is a visual ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry # $45 on Average for a Get-up: "Costuming..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, Neal shares some of his favorite Halloween costumes... Check ...

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Edison Uno - Redress Hero, a Minority of One

The National JACL Convention held in 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Little America Hotel — where this year’s National JACL Convention was ...

identity ja

Crónicas Nikkei 8 — Héroes Nikkei: Pioneros, Modelos a Seguir e Inspiraciones

私のルーツ ～大藤松五郎の足跡～

1969年春、戊辰戦争で敗れた会津藩士の一団が、当時ゴールドラッシュに沸いたカリフォルニアに渡り「若松コロニー」という入植地を築きました ...

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Nikkei al descubierto: una columna de poesía

What spirits whisper...

This month we are treated to two highly-lauded, accomplished writers and community heroes – Naomi Hirahara and Stan Yogi. Their pieces step out of each writer ...

identity en

Counteracting 'Invisibility' Within the JA Community

This substantial volume is co-edited by two distinguished Nikkei practitioners of Japanese American studies, one a Japan-based anthropologist, Yasuko Takezawa of Kyoto University, and the ...

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Crónicas Nikkei 8 — Héroes Nikkei: Pioneros, Modelos a Seguir e Inspiraciones

Mi oba, ¡qué mejor inspiración!

¿Quién me inspira a ser mejor? Creo que mi oba. Aunque hasta ahora, no sé cómo ella hacía para luchar contra los ...