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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow: A Granddaughter’s Tribute to Artist Hisako Hibi

As the granddaughter of prominent Japanese American painter Hisako Hibi, Amy Lee-Tai was exposed to art at an early age—and it was through her ...

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JET Tales from Aomori

Banging those drums and making friends!

It’s August fourth, 2006, two o’clock in the afternoon. My friend’s mother is wrapping my torso with a white cloth called a ...

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Catching Up with the Olivers

At first, the Olivers seemed like an elusive group. For years, as I was doing research in Little Tokyo for my dissertation, I would hear ...

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Elementos formadores do imaginário sobre o japonês no Brasil - Parte 2

>> Parte 1 O Escrutínio Russo-Japonez: "o simphatico nippão" e o colosso russo No início do mês de março de 1904 ...

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Nikkei Heritage

A Spiritual Evolution

There is a spiritual hunger among many Japanese Americans today who, like myself, dropped religious observances when they were in high school or college but ...

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Nuevas perspectivas comerciales entre Perú y Japón

Crece intercambio comercial y posibilidades de inversión En los últimos años, la relación comercial entre Perú y Japón ha ido en ...

culture en

Reinventing Culture - Japanese Style Gardens in America

In cultural creations ranging from outdoor gardens to works of art, music and literature, the question of authenticity often captures the attention of scholars, critics ...

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half enough

Royal Milk Tea Boba and Globalization

Boba in the United States is a result of globalization (or vice versa). It is becoming as popular and trendy as sushi and sake in ...

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The Cultural Implications and Authenticity of Japanese-style Gardens of California

Japanese-style gardens in California evoke different feelings of sentiment within their viewers. For the Japanese-American, a Japanese-style garden may evoke a sense of pride for ...

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

Reflections of a Gardener's Son

My Dad was working as a gardener when I was born. Then, when I was in first grade, he dropped his gardening work to establish ...