food en

Eating Tofu Sparks Food Memories

TORONTO — The other day I experienced a food delight. Yup, with my gohan (steamed rice), there was nice cold tofu cut up in small blocks ...

community en ja es pt

「花の都：エスコバール」日本人移住90周年（2019）と自分のルーツ再認識

アルゼンチンの首都ブエノスアイレス市の北部50キロに位置するエスコバールは「花の都」として知られている1。毎年10月には「花祭り ...

media en

Posh Writings on Prisons in the West: The New Yorker’s Take on Japanese American Incarceration

In the wake of the Los Angeles Times’s recent self-reflection on the place of racism in its past, it is worth considering how mainstream ...

culture en

私たちの物語の力

Michelle Kumata, A Japanese-American Artist with Brazilian Ancestral Roots

Seattle native Michelle Kumata’s artistic journey has taken her across the country to New York and across the hemisphere to Brazil, not only to ...

community pt

絆2020：ニッケイの思いやりと連帯―新型コロナウイルスの世界的大流行を受けて

Quero sair, viver ... Lamentações de Aiko

Antes da chegada dessa terrível pandemia que assola o mundo, Aiko, dona de casa, aposentada, moradora no tradicional bairro de Santana na Capital de ...

war en

Part 1: Banished from our homes: Family moved to Slocan internment camp

During World war II, George Doi and his parents and siblings were imprisoned in an internment camp at Bay Farm in Slocan. After they were ...

culture en

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #3 or 4 or 5 Digits: "Oops! Damn it!..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Stupid Blunders in Art - or ‘Silly Drawing Mistakes I ...

identity en

Tessaku

Setsuko Asano - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> And so when you got to Rohwer, what do you remember about it? The humidity, and the mosquitoes. There were a lot ...

migration ja

31年間の米国生活から日本に引き揚げた後永住権を再取得した徳留絹枝さん

子どもの将来考え永住権取得 様々な理由で米国暮らしの後に日本に引き揚げたり、またアメリカに残る選択をしたりする新一世の話を聞くうち、一度日本に引き揚げた後に再びアメリカに戻ってきた人の話も聞きたいと思うようになった。そんな時 ...

culture en

ニッケイを見いだす：詩のコラム

Moonlight

We have the immense pleasure of presenting several haiku from Boshichō Okamura for November. Ever since his grandson, Michael Okamura (of the Little Tokyo Historical ...