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Nikkei Chronicles #3—Nikkei Names: Taro, John, Juan, João?

A Jewpanese Name for the Past, Present, and Future

Sharleen Naomi Nakamoto Levine

Can parents choose a name that is a reflection of its times, as well as the past, and even the future? I was born on March 19, 1970, at Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, the same hospital where my mother had attended a School of Nursing to become a registered …

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