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Internment: A Passion Project

There is a script floating around Hollywood with Japanese Americans as central characters and the desolate landscape of an American concentration camp as the setting ...

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Ishikawa's Moment

In a previous article, I highlighted the fact that the Dodgers and the Giants had three Japanese Americans on their rosters (Darwin Barney and Brandon ...

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Japanese American Major Leaguers

Sitting in the upper deck overlooking right field at AT&T Park in San Francisco for the first game of the Dodgers-Giants series in September ...

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One Heart Beating to the Drums of Many—A work of fiction

“I don’t make it through this side of town too often, these days.” “When’s the last time you were down here?” I asked ...

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Issei Spirits

rattling rice cookergohan steamingissei ghost escapespirits risejust in timeto wash up for dinner come and join me, old-timerthere’s boiled squid—shoyu satoand aunty’s ...

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Stepping into the Past: Behind the Scenes of The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i

As a Hawai‘i-born Yonsei filmmaker, I’ve always been deeply interested in films about the Asian American experience. In 2009, I was asked by ...

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ニッケイ物語#2 — ニッケイ+ ～混ざり合う言語、伝統、世代、人種の物語～

4-Sei What? That’s Mixed Up

At home, I speak Japanese. At school, I speak English. And at times, I speak both. The two languages are thrown in a verbal potpourri ...

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TOMI-TALK: The Character of the Nisei Soldier

My name is Delia Tomino Nakayama and I wrote the English column “Tomi-Talk” for San Francisco Japantown’s Hokubei Mainichi newspaper for approximately 10 years ...

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ニッケイ物語 #1 — いただきます！ニッケイ食文化を味わう

Farm Food

I didn’t eat much Japanese food growing up. Born hapa Yonsei of a second generation German American mother and third generation Japanese American father ...

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About Hatsumi... with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 3 of 3

Read part 2 >> Is it important to preserve Japanese Canadian cultural centers and institutions for future generations? Critically. The Japanese Canadian and Japanese American community ...