Tamiko Nimura
@tnimuraTamiko Nimura es una escritora sansei/pinay, originaria del norte de California y que actualmente vive en el Noroeste del Pacífico. Sus escritos han aparecido o aparecerán en The San Francisco Chronicle, Kartika Review, The Seattle Star, Seattlest.com, The International Examiner (Seattle), y el Rafu Shimpo. Ella bloguea en Kikugirl.net, y está trabajando en un proyecto de libro que corresponde al manuscrito no publicado de su padre sobre su encarcelamiento en el campo Tule Lake durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Última actualización en Julio de 2012
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Of No-No Boy and No-No Boys: At the Seattle 2013 JANM Conference
12 de septiembre de 2013 • Tamiko Nimura
“How do you as a storyteller account for traces of the erased, the denied or that flat out vanished?”—Junot Díaz From Twitter: July 15, 2013, 12:35PM: @Tulelakenps: Today, 70 years ago in 1943, Tule Lake was declared a Segregation Center, incarcerating all Japanese Americans deemed “disloyal”. “Your name?” I’m picking up my registration packet for the Japanese American National Museum conference, held in Seattle a few weeks ago. “Nimura, N-I-M…” I begin, and start to spell out my last name for …
For a Sister Getting Married: Senbazuru—1000 Cranes
28 de junio de 2013 • Tamiko Nimura
“What are those?”I’m staying overnight with my daughter and her friends on a field trip. My daughter’s best friend is looking at the ziploc bag of paper, sitting on the hotel bedside table. “They’re origami cranes. You remember the story of Sadako that you read in your class this year? If you fold a thousand, you get a wish?” “Yeah. Can I look at one?” When I nod she takes one out of the bag, carefully. “They’re cool.” “I’m trying …
Mi canción del Sukiyaki Log Cabin*
16 de octubre de 2012 • Tamiko Nimura
1.El comentario en mi blog se inicia así: “Te he encontrado a ti y a tu hermana al fin”. La comentarista se describe a sí misma como una amiga de la infancia/juventud de mi papá. Hasta donde yo sé, nunca nos hemos conocido. Pero ella sabe el nombre de mi hermana y mi nombre, dos nombres bastante inusuales incluso en la América Japonesa. Ella sabe que yo crecí en Roseville, California. Ella dice que tiene recuerdos de mi padre que …
Why Ichiro’s Departure Makes This Nikkei Girl Sad
2 de agosto de 2012 • Tamiko Nimura
We arrived in Seattle at about the same time, and we’re the same age. We’ve both got family ties to Japan. When he arrived, he made just about as much as I did—that is, if you didn’t count the word “million” in his salary and “hundred” in mine. But none of this explains why Ichiro Suzuki’s sudden departure from the Mariners has hit me this hard. ***** When I arrived in Seattle in the late 1990s, I was scared, and …
