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Japanese school memories, Part I

I recently had a conversation with an old high school friend reminiscing what we did on the weekends growing up. She went to Catholic school ...

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ブラジル国、ニッポン村だより

カデイアと日本人移民

第二次世界大戦中北米の日本人移民が、収容所生活を強いられたことは広く知られている。移民先国と祖国が敵同士となったのはブラジル日本人移民も同 じだ。ブラジルには収容所こそなかったが ...

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Ser Nikkei en el Peru: Una marca de identidad

La nación okinawense en Perú

En la actualidad, la gran mayoría de descendientes japoneses en Perú tienen sus raíces en la prefectura de Okinawa. Se comenta que la ...

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Hopeless romantic semi-feminism: A follow-up on Valentine’s Day

I must reaffirm that being a hopeless romantic does not take away from me being anti-chauvinist. The fact that I demand to be treated like ...

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コウジのコラム

Citizen First

Anyone who wasn’t actively helping the Jews and other displaced people in Nazi Germany were as culpable for the crimes against humanity as any ...

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Japanese American Resettlement: Through the Lens

In this short essay I’d like to describe a new manuscript in progress, tentatively titled Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens. My co-author on ...

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¿Es o no una ventaja ser Nikkei?

La situación de la inmigración japonesa de la post segunda guerra mundial

Muchos fueron las dificultades, los sufrimientos y los vejámenes que habían tenido que pasar los inmigrantes japoneses del continente americano como consecuencia del ...

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Cross-culturing Valentine’s

I don’t consider myself a feminist. Mainly because I am, painful as it is to admit, a hopeless romantic. When it comes to Saint ...

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Bad SAT/GRE genes?

I’m preparing to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) to apply for graduate school. Studying for this exam takes me back to high school ...

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Nikkei in the Americas: New Questions, New Perspectives

Perhaps the most important lesson I learned from participating in the National Museum's "International Nikkei Research Project (INRP)1 " is how varied the Nikkei ...