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A Compelling Voice & Thoughtful Storyteller Actor & Filmmaker, Lane Nishikawa

Lane Nishikawa has used film, stage, and written word at various stages of his career to probe what it means to be Asian American and ...

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Mitsuo Akachi: un inmigrante que se arraigó fuertemente en Los Mochis, Sinaloa

Al acercarse la guerra entre Estados Unidos y Japón en el año de 1941, los estados de Baja California, Sonora y Sinaloa contaban ...

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Where to Bury Me

I awoke this morning to memories of the cowboy lament, “Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.” Perhaps the memories had been triggered when I ...

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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba

Part 4: Employment with the US Occupation Forces

Soon after moving to Japan Tak found work with the US occupation forces. While it included room and board, the salary itself was rather low ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #75 Burgers per Second: "I Predict..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "Events we will NEVER see occur..." Check back every ...

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Nishimura Sisters: Before, During, and After Tashme - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> YELLOW CHERRIES/YELLOW PERIL?! I am intrigued by the story of post-internment Ontario Japanese Canadian (JC) history in the booklet you wrote ...

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孤独な望郷 ～ フロリダ日系移民森上助次の手紙から

第29回 姪の渡米計画に心躍る

南フロリダの大和コロニーの一員として渡米、コロニー解体後もひとり最後まで現地にとどまり生涯を終えた森上助次は、戦後、夫（助次の弟 ...

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Nishimura Sisters: Before, During, and After Tashme - Part 1

“The exhibition title evolved from Sisters to Tashme Sisters because both of them began belated examinations of their origins in an internment camp and the ...

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新舛與右衛門 ー 祖父が生きたシアトル ー

第10回 無念の事故死と悲しみの帰国

前回は與右衛門を支えた日本人会と與右衛門がホテル開業を前にした日々の様子についてお伝えした。今回は、與右衛門の無念の事故死を遂げることをお話ししたい。 不慮の事故に遭遇 1928年12月２日 ...

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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II

Making Do: Suekichi Kameoka in Detention and His Family at Home

Sukeichi Kameoka was born on April 24, 1888, in Kojiro-mura, Kuga-gun, Yamaguchi-ken, Japan. He had three brothers. In the early 1900s, the 1905 Russo-Japanese War ...