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第２回 イマジン・リトル東京ショートストーリー・コンテスト

Floating Home

Life is a river Shall I fight the current or Let go and float home Papa removed his hat and leaned into the cab window ...

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In Search of “Chinameshi”

We call it “Old School Chinameshi,” this Cantonese version of Chinese food that Japanese Americans have been eating long before WWII, and several decades after ...

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A Typical Story of Survival & Regrowth After the War

Takashi and Shizuko (nee: Mori) Kato and their two children, Roy Shigehisa and Ikuko, moved from Inglewood to West Los Angeles just prior to evacuation ...

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Coming Back Full Circle

When the war came to a close, many of our friends started to leave camp. My brother Yukio just seemed to disappear at the first ...

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The Fugetsu-do Story

*Editor's Note: This article was written in 2004 and Fugetsu-do is currently celebrating its 112th anniversary. My grandfather, Seiichi Kito, was born in Gifu ...

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Yearning For Southern California

An elderly black man who daily caught a bus that took him from Watts to his job in Burbank was quoted as saying that he ...

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Haru Hashimoto: Matriarch of Mikawaya

Haru Hashimoto was born on July 10, 1903, in Japan, Aichi-ken, Nakashima-gun, Heiwa-mura, to Manjiro and Masa Kataoka. She was the second of six children ...

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Carrying on Tradition: A visit to Bunkado and the artistic, eclectic heart of Little Tokyo

Bunkado sits both physically and metaphorically at the crossroads of Little Tokyo. Nestled in the shadow of the Miyako Hotel on one side and guarding ...

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China Dolls by Lisa See

Fans of best-selling author Lisa See will not be surprised by her diverse background, the source of the unique perspective readers inevitably find in each ...

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“RING, RING” 

A phone call redirected my career and changed my life forever. Dr. Theodore Chen, chair of the East Asian Studies Department, was on the other ...