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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Location
For the column’s inaugural post, we wanted to begin with the theme of place, location, and co…

Amy Uyematsu +2 • Dec. 15, 2016

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Amy Uyematsu California concentration camps Discover Nikkei generations Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Hiroshi Kashiwagi identity Japanese Americans literature Little Tokyo Los Angeles Nikkei Uncovered (series) poetry poets Sansei Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps Wyoming
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My Name is Neal
Journal entry #15 Days Away: “No Snowmen Here...”
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 10, 2016

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California cartoonists cartoons Christmas food holidays humor Los Angeles United States
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From Oita to NY and then to LA after getting married: A missionary of Japanese spiritual culture - Torrance resident Fumiko Kugimiya
My daughter's ballet training was the trigger for me to move to the US The so-called "Shin…

Keiko Fukuda • Nov. 11, 2016

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California communication etiquette Fumiko Kugimiya generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration New York (state) Oita Prefecture postwar Shin-Issei sociology speeches United States World War II
California communication etiquette Fumiko Kugimiya generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration New York (state) Oita Prefecture postwar Shin-Issei sociology speeches United States World War II
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Little Tokyo’s Significance - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> When the Sansei went to college, they found a way to understand these contrad…

Samuel Mori • Nov. 3, 2016

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California communities identity Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
California communities identity Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
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Little Tokyo’s Significance - Part 1
I once heard an apocryphal story from a community activist who had worked in Little Tokyo for a lon…

Samuel Mori • Nov. 2, 2016

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California communities identity Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
California communities identity Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
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Japanese Christians in the Sawtelle district of Los Angeles
Most Japanese language schools in Los Angeles, established by Issei nearly a century ago, have the …

Shigeharu Higashi • Oct. 21, 2016

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California Christianity Christians Gisuke Sakamoto Herbert Nicholson Japanese language schools Japantowns language schools Los Angeles Methodists Sawtelle United States West Los Angeles
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3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
“MERRY CHRISTMAS, MARIO-SAN”
Little Tokyo, 1989 One night, Mario Martinez, a struggling musician from Boyle Heights, was sittin…

Rubén “Funkahuatl” Guevara • Oct. 3, 2016

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Atomic Cafe California Christmas fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles music musicians restaurants short stories Suehiro Cafe (restaurant) United States
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Yuko T. Koach, who runs a beauty school and is also active as a leading Hollywood hair stylist
Shelved her dream to go abroad and became a hairdresser. She entrusted her dreams to her daughters …

Keiko Fukuda • Sept. 29, 2016

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beauty culture California generations hairdressing immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II Yuko T. Koach
beauty culture California generations hairdressing immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II Yuko T. Koach
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Nikkei Chronicles #5—Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture
Made in Japan
This familiar phrase, “made in Japan” (Nihon-sei) reminds me of my mother, Yaeko. She w…

Mary Sunada • Aug. 26, 2016

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brides California culture Discover Nikkei families Girl's Day holidays languages language schools Los Angeles New Year Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei-go (series) Oshogatsu United States war brides wives
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Something About My Great-Grandmother
Born in 1896, in 1919 my great‐grandmother Sueno Matsunaga (née Motoshima) of Shimomashiki…

Erik Matsunaga • Aug. 15, 2016

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Arizona brides California concentration camps Del Rey families generations Gila River (Ariz.) Gila River concentration camp Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration picture brides United States wives World War II World War II camps Wyoming
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