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About a year ago, my mother called to tell me that my grandmother had stopped eating. It was expect…

Patricia Wakida • Aug. 14, 2012

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 8 of 10

Read Part 7 >> The Japanese Americans: A Broadening of Ethnic Consciousness Because…

Takeyuki Tsuda • Aug. 13, 2012

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The Asian American Literary Review

Poems by Hiromi Itō -- from Wild Grass on the Riverbank - Part 2

Read Jeffrey Angles’ short essay about Wild Grass on the Riverbank >> Mother Lead…

Hiromi Itō • Aug. 12, 2012

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Journal Entry #Circa 10th Century: "Somato Sensation..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Aug. 11, 2012

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43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage/2012 Manzanar At Dusk: A Shin-Nisei Perspective

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Manzanar National Historic Site, the 4…

Yuta Ebikawa • Aug. 10, 2012

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The Pencil Box

I think most people have a collection of odds and ends they keep as old keepsakes from their parent…

David Toyoshima • Aug. 9, 2012

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

日系コミュニティーのエスニックビジネス、デフレとの戦い

今年の3月、『日系ビジネス』という経済誌（Nº1634, 2012.03.26, 26~42頁）にデフレの特集記事があり、そこにはあまり何でもかんでも安くするとそれによってすべてが破壊され…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Aug. 8, 2012

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Investing in the People

As part of the Nikkei Community Internship (NCI) program, I have spent the past eight weeks not onl…

Lawrence Lan • Aug. 8, 2012

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Nikkei Chronicles #1—ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

Farm Food

I didn’t eat much Japanese food growing up. Born hapa Yonsei of a second generation German Am…

Erik Matsunaga • Aug. 7, 2012

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The JABA Legacy Project: Pioneering Jurists in the Nikkei Community

Judge Jon Mayeda: The Right Place at the Right Time

Judge Jon Mayeda—a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge who currently works with J…

Lawrence Lan • Aug. 7, 2012

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