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Megumi Mizutani, who connects the sister city relationship between California and Japan
Japanese people who "don't know about Japan" In October 2023, when I participated in…

Keiko Fukuda • Feb. 5, 2024

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California California-Japan Sister Cities Network (organization) culture international relations Japan Japanese culture Kyushu Megumi Mizutani Saga Prefecture Sebastopol sister cities Takeo (city) United States U.S.-Japan relations
California California-Japan Sister Cities Network (organization) culture international relations Japan Japanese culture Kyushu Megumi Mizutani Saga Prefecture Sebastopol sister cities Takeo (city) United States U.S.-Japan relations
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Power of Our Stories
In American Dream
There are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories. Historians, novelists, and artists o…

Esther Newman • Nov. 27, 2023

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An American Dream (opera) imprisonment incarceration opera World War II camps
An American Dream (opera) imprisonment incarceration opera World War II camps
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Ancestry and Toxicity: Breaking Free From Old Patterns and Toxic Relationships
When “unconditional loyalty” goes wrong... Over the years of putting together the piec…

Tuney-Tosheia P. McDaniels • March 20, 2023

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families
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125 Years after the First Japanese Immigration to Mexico: The Soul of Relations between Mexico and Japan - Part 2
Read Part 1 >>  From the End of World War II to the Founding of the Japanese-Mexican Sc…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • Oct. 6, 2022

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anniversaries artists communities international relations Japan Japan-Mexico relations Mexico
anniversaries artists communities international relations Japan Japan-Mexico relations Mexico
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Excerpt from Two Nails, One Love
I’m not the type to wallow in a bad situation. I’m more apt to pack my things and mov…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 3, 2021

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families fiction novels
families fiction novels
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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Keeping Family Ties
For some of us, an unexpected side effect of COVID-19 has been the increased importance of relation…

Merton Chinen • May 3, 2021

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communication communities COVID-19 families Hawaii interpersonal relations sociology United States Zoom (video software)
communication communities COVID-19 families Hawaii interpersonal relations sociology United States Zoom (video software)
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Farms of the Future: The Work of Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> The incarceration experience left a deep impression on Hewes. He later recoun…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 22, 2021

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American Council on Race Relations (organization) farmers Farm Security Administration imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. World War II
American Council on Race Relations (organization) farmers Farm Security Administration imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Laurence I. Hewes, Jr. World War II
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Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage
Meeting the Kumamoto Relatives
My first trip to Japan was in the summer of 2016. I was very nervous about meeting my recently-disc…

Edna Horiuchi • Oct. 19, 2018

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Discover Nikkei families Japan Kumamoto Prefecture Nikkei Chronicles (series)
Discover Nikkei families Japan Kumamoto Prefecture Nikkei Chronicles (series)
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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei
Measures to strengthen cooperation between Japanese descendants in Latin America and Japan
Since the inauguration of the second Abe Cabinet at the end of 2012, the Prime Minister has been pr…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Aug. 4, 2017

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interpersonal relations Japan Latin America
interpersonal relations Japan Latin America
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A New Home For Japan’s Cherry Blossom Trees In Hawaii?
Japanese Botanist Sees Potential in the Islands I stare out at the cherry blossomsIn marvel an…

Gwen Battad Ishikawa • May 13, 2015

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cherry blossoms Hawaii international relations literature Oahu poetry trees United States U.S.-Japan relations Wahiawa Waimea Washington, D.C.
cherry blossoms Hawaii international relations literature Oahu poetry trees United States U.S.-Japan relations Wahiawa Waimea Washington, D.C.
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