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Family Histories in Seattle’s Nikkei Community

Dragon in Seattle — Ideguchi Family History

At first, her voice is scratchy as her phone connects to mine across thousands of miles of sea, me sitting in a dorm room at ...

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Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Melanie Carrié: 66th CBF Queen Brings an International Perspective to Her New Role

Melanie Camille Michiko Carrié, the newly crowned Cherry Blossom Festival queen, has lived in places others have only dreamed of — and in less than a ...

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A History of Oppression, a Life of Privilege: What It’s Like to Be 4th Generation Japanese American in the Movement for Social Justice

Most Asian Americans in the U.S. today are immigrants or the children of immigrants, so people are flabbergasted when they find out that not ...

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Chicago's Sansei Yonsei Athletic Association Basketball Clinic

Prior to WWII, there were roughly four hundred persons of Japanese ancestry living in Chicago. By 1945, there were twenty thousand, the majority of whom ...

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Inaka: Moving from Scorn to Pride

I sometimes refer to the Imperial Valley as my little inaka corner of the world. Literally translated, inaka (田舎) means “the countryside” or “one’s ...

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We Remember

We remember. We are Yonsei, fourth-generation Japanese Americans, hapa, hyphenated-Americans. While we may have grown up in different places, while you may not recognize us ...

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ニッケイ物語#4 — ニッケイ・ファミリー： 記憶、伝統、家族観

From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again

I am a Hapa, Yonsei Uchinanchu (a mixed-race, 4th-generation Okinawan-American) who was born in Riverside, California, in 1973 and raised in the shadow of the ...

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Q&A with Sugar/Islands Artist Laura Kina

Artist Laura Kina is one of two artists featured in the new exhibition, Sugar/Islands: Finding Okinawa in Hawai‘i—The Art of Laura Kina ...

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Making Art That Matters: Sugar/Islands and Stories of Hawai‘i’s History

“I am constantly struck by how incredibly brave and committed Laura Kina and Emily Hanako Momohara were to this project and for creating work that ...

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ニッケイ物語#4 — ニッケイ・ファミリー： 記憶、伝統、家族観

Grandfather’s Gift

There is something unique about being in the presence of one’s Nisei grandparents. Maybe it is their years of life experiences, simply their wisdom ...