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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Japanese Canadian Art in the Time of Covid-19 - Part 7
Read Part 6 >> These Covid times, emerging from our third lockdown in Ontario, as well as te…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • July 22, 2021

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan activism authors Canada COVID-19 Discover Nikkei editors filmmakers Japan Japanese Canadians Kizuna 2020 (series) Linda Ohama musicians Ron Korb social action storytelling Tohoku Region (Japan) writers Yusuke Tanaka
2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan activism authors Canada COVID-19 Discover Nikkei editors filmmakers Japan Japanese Canadians Kizuna 2020 (series) Linda Ohama musicians Ron Korb social action storytelling Tohoku Region (Japan) writers Yusuke Tanaka
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An Interview With City of Ghosts Yonsei Creator Elizabeth Ito 
A maneki neko statue keeps moving mysteriously around a “sort of” Japanese restaurant i…

Tamiko Nimura • June 8, 2021

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animation California City of Ghosts (animation) Elizabeth Ito generations Los Angeles Netflix (firm) United States Yonsei
animation California City of Ghosts (animation) Elizabeth Ito generations Los Angeles Netflix (firm) United States Yonsei
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Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Seven—No-knead Bread
“Do you think this Ryan Stone is a real person?” my daughter Sycamore asked me as we to…

Naomi Hirahara • June 4, 2021

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Arthur A. Hansen Brian Niiya fiction Nancy Ito Naomi Hirahara softball
Arthur A. Hansen Brian Niiya fiction Nancy Ito Naomi Hirahara softball
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Exploring the Sprawling and Complex History of Japanese Canadian Gardens
CALGARY — Growing up, filmmaker Guillaume Carlier would visit a cabin on Trout Lake in Britis…

Kelly Fleck • March 16, 2021

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agriculture Alberta Borrowed from Nature (film) British Columbia Canada gardening gardens Guillaume Carlier Heiwa Teien Peace Garden Japanese Canadians Japanese gardens Lethbridge New Denver Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre Nitobe Garden Roy Tomomichi Sumi University of British Columbia Vancouver (B.C.)
agriculture Alberta Borrowed from Nature (film) British Columbia Canada gardening gardens Guillaume Carlier Heiwa Teien Peace Garden Japanese Canadians Japanese gardens Lethbridge New Denver Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre Nitobe Garden Roy Tomomichi Sumi University of British Columbia Vancouver (B.C.)
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Quiet Warriors
Richard Naito
On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt…

Mikiko Amagai • Jan. 26, 2021

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442nd Regimental Combat Team armed forces concentration camps Idaho Italy Minidoka concentration camp retired military personnel Richard Naito United States United States Army veterans World War II World War II camps
442nd Regimental Combat Team armed forces concentration camps Idaho Italy Minidoka concentration camp retired military personnel Richard Naito United States United States Army veterans World War II World War II camps
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The MIS: Boots on the Ground in the Pacific
Collections Management staff at the Japanese American National Museum often provide photographs and…

Jamie Henricks • Sept. 2, 2020

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armed forces artifacts collections (objects) Don Okubo interpreters Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) linguists retired military personnel soldiers translators veterans Victory over Japan Day World War II Yoshito Fujimoto
armed forces artifacts collections (objects) Don Okubo interpreters Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) linguists retired military personnel soldiers translators veterans Victory over Japan Day World War II Yoshito Fujimoto
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Yoemon Shinmasu – My Grandfather’s Life in Seattle
Part 9 – The Japanese Association and Yoemon’s final days
In Part 8, I wrote about the immigrants from Yamaguchi Prefecture, the process of sending money bac…

Ikuo Shinmasu • Feb. 26, 2020

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business Chuzaburo Ito economics generations hotels immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese Association (Mexicali, Baja California) management migration prewar Seattle United States Washington Yamaguchi Prefecture
business Chuzaburo Ito economics generations hotels immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese Association (Mexicali, Baja California) management migration prewar Seattle United States Washington Yamaguchi Prefecture
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Power of Our Stories
The Yonsei Memory Project: Keeping Stories Alive Through Inter-Generational Healing
For many Japanese American communities across the country, February 19 marks a Day of Remembrance. …

Ian Hunter • Feb. 6, 2020

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Brynn Saito Nikiko Masumoto Yonsei Memory Project
Brynn Saito Nikiko Masumoto Yonsei Memory Project
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Tule Lake History Passed on from Father to Son: Iwao and Hiroshi Shimizu
Tule Lake Committee chair Hiroshi Shimizu attended his first Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 1994, clutchin…

Sharon Yamato • Sept. 26, 2019

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California concentration camps Crystal City internment camp Department of Justice camps editors Hokubei Mainichi Hokubei Times (newspaper) imprisonment incarceration iwao shimizu Japanese Americans Japanese language newspapers newspapers Nichi Bei Foundation (organization) Nichi Bei Times (newspaper) pilgrimages renunciation Texas Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
California concentration camps Crystal City internment camp Department of Justice camps editors Hokubei Mainichi Hokubei Times (newspaper) imprisonment incarceration iwao shimizu Japanese Americans Japanese language newspapers newspapers Nichi Bei Foundation (organization) Nichi Bei Times (newspaper) pilgrimages renunciation Texas Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II World War II camps
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Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV) Role in Activation of 442nd RCT
One of the least known Nisei military units in World War II was the Varsity Victory Volunteers, pop…

Ted Tsukiyama • Feb. 28, 2019

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442nd Regimental Combat Team Hawaii Territorial Guard United States Army Varsity Victory Volunteers
442nd Regimental Combat Team Hawaii Territorial Guard United States Army Varsity Victory Volunteers
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