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孤独な望郷 ～ フロリダ日系移民森上助次の手紙から

第31回 日本は戦争には負けたが……

南フロリダの大和コロニーの一員として渡米、コロニー解体後もひとり最後まで現地にとどまり生涯を終えた森上助次は、戦後、夫（助次の弟 ...

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Kizuna 2020: Bondade e solidariedade nikkeis durante a pandemia da COVID-19

COVID Ghost Town

In November 2019, I was in a US hospital for five days. My temperature was hovering around 102°F. I sweat profusely, followed by the ...

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Yoemon Shinmasu – My Grandfather’s Life in Seattle

Part 11 – Aki’s challenge and re-entry of her two daughters into the U.S.

In the last part, I wrote about Yoemon’s death from an unexpected accident and the family’s sorrowful return from Seattle to Kamai. In ...

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Internment of Japanese Americans on Angel Island during World War II

Wakijiro Yuki's Detention Because of Kendo

Wakijiro Yahiro was born on April 8, 1885, in Kamisaigo-mura, a little fishing and farming village in Fukuoka prefecture, on the northern coast of Kyushu ...

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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba

Part 7: Formation of JC Exiles Group in Kansai, Life after Retirement

Involvement in forming and leading the JC Exiles Group in Kansai Following the official apology in 1988 by the prime minister of Canada to Japanese ...

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Kizuna 2020: Bondade e solidariedade nikkeis durante a pandemia da COVID-19

日本の日系ラティーノの新型コロナウィルスに対する迷いと希望

2020年4月16日現在、新型コロナウィルスが全世界に拡散し猛威を振るっており、その状況は日々変化している。今年2月3日、横浜に大型クルーザーが寄港した1 ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #6 Feet, at Least: "Does a Dirt Cloud Help?..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Comics and Cartoons in the Era of COVID-19” Check ...

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Cinco jóvenes artistas nikkei comparten experiencias

“Komorebi” significa “luz del sol que se filtra a través de las hojas de los árboles”. Fue la palabra que eligieron cinco artistas nikkei ...

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Nikkei a Descoberto: uma coluna de poesia

Comfort

This month, we feature California-based Yonsei writer, Kendall Tani, and Arizona-based Sansei writer, Susan Yamamura. Susan’s is a lighthearted parody poem that heralds where ...

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Os nikkeis da América Latina e os nikkeis latinos

2021年パラグアイCOPANI ～ 私の願い－その２

その１を読む ＞＞ ここ数年、多くの日系リーダーはCOPANI大会の疲労を口にしている。詰め込みの講演や分科会オンパレードを指摘する人も多く、内容だけでなく時間的余裕や特徴ある発表を望んでいる ...