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Los Angeles Nikkei

Westside Sanseisaying good riddance to scotch-tape and black mascaraas you board the Asian American Movement—c. 1968Next Stop…S. F. State, Manzanar, Agbayani Village, Wounded ...

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Nanka Nikkei Voices

Starting a New Life

My mother, Kinuko Saito, was holding me in her arms as we left Japan. I was six months old when we embarked on a military ...

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

Japanese American Sumo in the Continental United States, 1900-1941 - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>Japanese American Sumo in the New Era: From Issei to Nisei The 1924 Immigration Act was an important turning point in the ...

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

Japanese American Sumo in the Continental United States, 1900-1941 - Part 1

Sumo—in which two hefty, virtually naked men push, shove, and throw each other—probably looks like an exotic sport to most Americans. Young Japanese ...

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Community Restructuring: Camps 1995

Lately I’ve been having a reoccurring dream—a real nightmare. In my dream Japanese Americans are sent back to Camp. It begins with me ...

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Stone Bridges of Understanding

On February 11, 2014, at a meeting of the Rotary Club of East Los Angeles, Stonebridge Entertainment‘s Gerald Ishibashi spoke about a project that ...

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A Little Tokyo Bully Learns a Lesson

Once upon a time there were a group of children who lived in Little Tokyo. Like most boys and girls they played together. They’d ...

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Diamonds Separated by Oceans: Baseball, Japanese Americans, and Southern California's Pacific Rim - Part 2

Read part 1 >>As the Japanese and Japanese American population grew, generational differences emerged. For example, in four years between 1926-1930, the percentage of Nisei ...

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Diamonds Separated by Oceans: Baseball, Japanese Americans, and Southern California's Pacific Rim - Part 1

“If California has made any contribution to sport on a national level, it is in the democratization of pursuits that were previously the prerogatives of ...

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OCHAZUKE: New Year, Same Old Name

A little belated, but shinnen akemashite omedeto! Of course, here in the JA community, January 1 is only the beginning of the New Year’s ...