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Comer, comer, comer
Es uno de los pilares de la experiencia de conocer lugares ajenos y extraños… aunque tan ajeno no me fue porque mucho de lo que comí tenía sabores que probé durante toda mi niñez de mano de la abuela paterna, como ...
Estelle Ishigo is a name that may be familiar to many of you. She was one of the few whites to be incarcerated with Japanese Americans during World War II. Estelle voluntarily chose to enter Heart Mountain Relocation Center in order to stay with her Nisei husband, Arthur Ishigo. She ...
子供の頃は認識不足だった 「故郷の味」
日本の九州、大分に生まれ18歳までそこで暮らした私にとって、子供の頃から慣れ親しんできた味といえば鶏料理だ。実はつい最近知ったのだが、大分県は日本一、鶏肉の消費量が多いらしい。手羽先料理で有名な愛知県をしのぐとは思わなかった。
When Norman Yoshio Mineta looks back on his life, he shakes his head and wonders how a little kid from San Jose wound up in Washington, D.C., first as a Congressman and then as a member of two Presidents’ Cabinets. Moreover, he has distinguished himself as an advocate for civil ...
On April 4, 2012, the East San Gabriel Vally Japanese Community Center in West Covina, under the direction of Mrs. Pearl Omiya, organized a ceremony to recognize the contributions of Mrs. Reiko Hirama Moreno, one of her most remarkable members. Two Japanese Cherry Trees were dedicated to her, in memory ...
Last January, my uncle passed away. At 93 Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi was an acclaimed civil rights hero for his World War II resistance to cur few and the camps, and for his life-long commitment as a Quaker to peace and global understanding. Unbeknownst to Gordon, over the past five years ...
My maternal grandmother’s birthday was on May 11th, so even though it’s been almost 15 years since she’s been gone, I still think about her every Mother’s Day.
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "Tips For Becoming A Film Critic!"
On my recent trip to Little Tokyo branch library in Los Angeles, notices for two fund-raising campaigns were posted—one to build a Ryoma Sakamoto statute and the other to save Bunichi Kagawa’s poem epitaph.
Entre Japón -el lugar de origen de mis abuelos- y China, mi esposa y yo elegimos China debido a la desgracia que sufrió Fukushima por sus reactores nucleares.
The second part of this series will tell the story of another fascinating individual with a tremendous contribution to Japanese American history. Shigeru “John” Nitta was born in Seattle in 1911, but moved to Japan as a child due to his father’s illness. He eventually returned to the United States ...
Referred to as the camp for “troublemakers” and “bad” and “disloyal” people, Tule Lake’s reputation still carries stigma for those who were incarcerated there. The stigma remains so pervasive that most Nisei who refused to answer “yes” to the so-called “loyalty questionnaire” questions 27 and 28 some 65 years ago ...
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Stahl Family:
The Stahl family was one of the few families in the community that was of mixed race. Mr. Stahl, Earl, was a native of northern Louisiana, from rural areas around Shreveport. He was relatively typical for the region, the grandson of ...
“As we share our culture and learn about others, we can choose to live harmoniously,” Kay Fukumoto of Maui Taiko shares her taiko philosophy. “We are all one people on one earth. Peace begins inside each of us. If we focus on it as an end goal, we can surely ...
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "Childhood Queries..."