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2017年日系人お正月ストーリー —その1

１月のニュースレターで 、世界各国の日系人読者の方々が、どのように新年をむかえられるかを写真や文章を通して紹介してくださるようにお願いしました。読者の方から英語・日本語 ...

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老いても書く喜び学ぶ　－敬老引退者ホーム文章教室－

ロサンゼルスのボイルハイツにある敬老引退者ホームで昨年、ちょっと変わったクラスが開かれた。日英両語の文章教室である。同ホームには墨絵や陶芸などさまざまな趣味のクラスをはじめ、ヨガや太極拳などのエクササイズのクラス ...

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Ten Days of Cleanup

Chapter Two—The Curse of Mottainai – Part 1

While many post-World War II Japanese families were all about discarding old tansu and kimono, my mother closely held to the value of mottainai, that ...

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Ten Days of Cleanup

Chapter One—The Contract

“Hello, Souji RS. Hiroko speaking.” I held my cell phone to my ear as I defrosted some natto in the microwave. My 10-year-old daughter Sycamore ...

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Chapter Twelve—A Japanese Girl

For the past two days, Okei’s teeth chattered, all day and all night. It was as if a spirit had entered her body and ...

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Chapter Eleven—In the Dark Night

The sounds of the explosions seemed to get louder every day. Kintaro felt his whole body shake as the booms seemed close to shattering his ...

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Chapter Ten—Lost Samurai

Shin: To become a person who is trusted, and who can trust others. —a principle of the Aizu people As the Wakamatsu colonists began to ...

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Chapter Nine—Pickles and the Promised Land

Matsugoro Ohto wiped the sweat off of his forehead as he and his fellow carpenter, Kuninosuke “Kuni” Masumizu, took a break from their woodworking project ...

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Chapter Eight—Death of the Mulberry Tree

Keiko Shinshi hadn’t been feeling well for days.  Her husband, Tatsutaro, thought it was because the last mulberry tree in the colony had died ...

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Chapter Seven—A Night in San Francisco

Among the Japan-born Wakamatsu colonists, Makoto and Kuni were the strongest English speakers. As a result, when the colony’s founder, John Henry Schnell, announced ...