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Óscar Chambi y sus puentes hacia los nikkei

En la vida del fotógrafo y sociólogo Óscar Chambi no parece haber espacio para el azar o los hechos aislados. Todo parece interconectado ...

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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 ...

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History, Unmoored: For Yasuko-san and Keiko-San

“Oh, this photo is evaporating. It needs to be copied right away,” says my friend Michael Sullivan. We’re looking through a black and white ...

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Mystery Album - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Excerpts taken from the 1946 SHS Yearbook Mayor McArthur’s speech to the 1946 grads: Most of you are of Japanese origin ...

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Mystery Album - Part 1

How this ‘mystery album’ fell onto my lap is, in Japanese, fushigi or in English, ‘surreal.’ To top it off, this album belonged to a ...

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JASC Partners With Alphawood Gallery on “Then They Came For Me;” Largest JA Incarceration Exhibit Ever in Midwest

On June 29th, 2017, the Alphawood Gallery, in partnership with the Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) was glad to announce the opening of their first ...

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Masashi Shimotsusa (1885–1959): The Samurai Photographer of San Diego

A note on names: The names of the Issei photographers, including Shimotsusa even though he returned to Japan, are presented in Western order, that is ...

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One of Thousands

“Abunai tokoro niwa ikanaide ne.” (Don’t go any where dangerous.)                                                        —Hisayo Ito, mother of Sus Ito In 1994, Susumu “Sus” Ito, a World War ...

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Crónicas Nikkei #2 — Nikkei+ ~Historias de Lenguaje, Tradiciones, Generaciones y Raza Mixtos~

Memory Says

Nearly every year my husband remembers that we got married on October the 24, 1998. We did not. Stereotypes aside, I, as the woman, and ...

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La Columna de Koji

Top 10 Iconic Japanese American Photos

Walt Disney once said, “Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.” Pictures tell a story that ...