日系文化遺産
このシリーズは、カリフォルニア州サンフランシスコにある全米日系アメリカ人歴史協会の季刊誌「Nikkei Heritage」から厳選した記事を再掲載しています。これらの号は、日系アメリカ人の経験のさまざまな側面についてタイムリーな分析と洞察を提供しています。NJAHS は、2004 年 12 月から Discover Nikkei 参加団体となっています。
このシリーズのストーリー
The Heritage of an Issei Lady: Yonako Abiko’s Vision for Global Connections (1880-1944)
2010年1月19日 • 山本 恵里子
For the early Issei in this country, Meiji-era Japan and the U.S. were worlds-apart culturally, linguistically, and politically. Some, however, believed their role and their children’s future role was to be “bridges.” Yonako Abiko (1880-1944) [安孫子 餘奈子]—a San Francisco-based Issei and a distinguished woman leader—envisioned Japanese Americans as “bridges of understanding” to connect the United States and Japan during a time of rising hostilities between the two nation. In many ways, she herself played important roles as a bridge between …
A Love Affair with Snow
2009年12月9日 • ロッド・タツノ
Skiing has been a passion for me. It was once a sometime activity which I could indulge in as frequently as the proverbial blue moon appearing in the California sky. A series of events would forever alter my direction from street kid to mountain man. I first saw the light of this mundane world in the middle of Sea Biscuit’s turf, the Tanforan race track near San Bruno, in 1942, courtesy of the first JA woman doctor, Dr. Kazue Togasaki. …
Interview with David Suzuki
2009年11月23日 • エリン・ヨシオカ
“Nature is our home. And just as we take care of our house, we also must take care of nature,” renowned environmentalist David Suzuki, ranked Canada’s greatest living countryman in a public broadcasting poll, explained to Nikkei Heritage. “Nature takes care of us too. Nature cleans our air and water, makes the soil that grows our food, and provides the resources to make all our material goods. “When you have a large victory in the Environmental Movement, it is temporary. …
Jose Nakamura: The first Nikkei in American Baseball
2009年10月9日 • チオリ・サンティアゴ
As World War Two came to an end, Japanese Americans began the slow process of moving from internments camps to rebuild lives in the Midwest, along the West Coast and across the country. They re-established farms and businesses, found jobs in neighborhoods where they’d once been strangers. Yet in one field of endeavor, Japanese American faces were noticeably absent. No Asians were among the line-ups in one of America’s more popular sport—baseball. “There was just one,” says 80-year-old Jose Nakamura …
Grant Imahara Interview
2009年9月21日 • ゲイ・ミヤサキ
Flashback to 1954: “Godzilla” makes its big screen debut. Directed by Ishiro Honda and produced by Toho Studios in Japan, the film, which featured a man in a rubber suit demolishing a scale model of Tokyo, represented the cutting edge of special effects in cinema. You’ve come a long way, baby! Since then, audiences all over the world have been dazzled by increasingly sophisticated special effects in blockbusters like “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park,” and “The Matrix.” But, while everyone knows …
Glen S. Fukushima
2009年8月24日 • ベン・ハマモト
In mid-January of 1994, President Bill Clinton received a 14-page paper on his desk entitled, “Repairing the U.S.-Japan Relationship.” The President read the paper, underlined and wrote comments on many passages, and sent it to several of his key officials with the words, “Worth reading. And often accurate. Should discuss.” The first page of the paper was stamped, “The President has seen.” The paper—which ended up in the headlines of almost every journal and newspaper concerned with transpacific relations—was written …