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If You Have These Things You Must Be JA
All the Japanese Americans I know have all sorts of ways to show their cultural roots. It may not b…
Gil Asakawa • Dec. 10, 2014
This is What It Means to Say Hanami in Seattle
Each time I’ve tried to write about hanami in Seattle, there’s something that makes me …
Tamiko Nimura • April 30, 2014
Cultivating remembrance: An interview with filmmaker Kenneth Kokka
The phrase “Richmond, California, 1942” might call to mind the patriotic bustle of nava…
Fiona Potter • Jan. 29, 2013
Blossoms and Thorns: A Community Uprooted: New documentary portrays a vanishing industry
Richmond, California, in the year 1942 calls to mind the bustle of naval shipyards and a whirlwind …
Fiona Potter • Jan. 28, 2013
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Blossoms and Thorns (film)
California
Contra Costa JACL
Contra Costa Japanese American Citizens League
documentaries
Donna Graves
films
generations
horticulture
immigrants
immigration
Issei
Japan
Kenneth Kokka
migration
Nisei
Northern California
nurseries (horticulture)
postwar
prewar
resettlements
Richmond (Calif.)
United States
World War II
2012 was a good year for Denver’s Japanese and Japanese American community
This was a good year for Japanese and Japanese Americans in Colorado. A lot of the credit goes to I…
Gil Asakawa • Dec. 31, 2012
Lucy Walker, Director of The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Being that my mother is from Japan, I feel a connection to that country that many Japanese American…
Koji Steven Sakai • March 12, 2012
WORDS CAN LIE OR CLARIFY: Terminology of the World War II Incarceration of Japanese Americans* - Part 5
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While a major controversy between the Nikkei and Jewish communities had been …
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga • March 2, 2010
Sakura: Beautiful Flowering Trees of Japan
The cherry blossom, known as sakura, is the national flower of Japan. Different from the fruit-bear…
Leslie Yamaguchi +1 • April 20, 2007
