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Dekasegi Story

Episode 29: The Song of Dekasegi

Eric and Emily are twin siblings. When they were five years old, their parents divorced and their f…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Aug. 17, 2017

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As You Like It

Chapter Twelve—Get Back in There

Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were…

Naomi Hirahara • Aug. 4, 2017

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Chapter Eleven—Hiroshima World

We have only forty-eight hours to bring Hiroshima World to Manhattan. I take that back. Now forty-s…

Naomi Hirahara • July 4, 2017

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Reading Japanese American Literature

9th "Garden of Kabul"

As we get older, we all start to look back on our past. We wonder where we came from and why we be…

Ryusuke Kawai • June 23, 2017

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Chapter Ten—Kappa Power

I saw my first homeless person in Japan when I was visiting Tokyo. Actually there were a whole grou…

Naomi Hirahara • June 4, 2017

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The 7th "North Needle"

In the past, some people who traveled from Japan to the United States did so without going through …

Ryusuke Kawai • May 26, 2017

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Chapter Nine—Clipped

In Japanese folktales, old women are sometimes cast as the “bad guys.” You see it in &l…

Naomi Hirahara • May 4, 2017

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Cherry Blossom Petals

An elegant few, pale pink blossoms on the slender limbs of a delicate February Fuji Cherry tree, di…

Susan Yamamura • April 28, 2017

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Dekasegi Story

Episode 28 (Part 2) A Homecoming After 27 Years

Read the first part >> Masahiro Shibata, 46, has been living in Japan for 25 years, but this …

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • April 24, 2017

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The 4th episode: "The Woman of Heihori"

Whether it was America or South America, the main characters of modern Japanese overseas immigratio…

Ryusuke Kawai • April 14, 2017

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