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＞＞その２沖家と酒井家沖氏のおかげでいくつかの謎が解けたというか、コロニーがどういう歴史的な経緯で誕生したかが浮かび上がってきたが、さらに沖氏の姉である長屋光子さんからは、沖家やコロニーについてのエ…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 19, 2010

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Phyla, etcetera - Part 2

>> Part 1Outside of school we of course played games. The summer heat was a challenge so outd…

Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey • Nov. 19, 2010

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Mukashi Banashi - Part 1

In the summer of 1981, I drove through the Tehachapi Pass from Los Angeles and descended onto the f…

Akemi Kikumura Yano • Nov. 18, 2010

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Children of Dekasegi, Bilingual and Educated in Japan: The New Generation of Nikkei - Part 1

José Iraha Flores is twenty-three years old and studies communications in the University of …

Enrique Higa Sakuda +1 • Nov. 17, 2010

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Junko Fisher brings traditional Okinawan dance to New York

By day Yoshitake Kamiya worked in the fields of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. By night …

Susan Miyagi McCormac • Nov. 17, 2010

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What Pearl Harbor Wrought

Epilogue

Life: …the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an indi…

Akio Konoshima • Nov. 16, 2010

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ある帰米二世の軌跡: 歯科技工士ハワード・小川さん－その５

＞＞その４父親として、日系社会の一員として1944年に結婚したハワードさんとアンさんには、1948年に長女のジョイスさん、1952年に次女のスーザンさんが生まれました。ハワードさんは、公の場では多く…

Takamichi "Taka" Go • Nov. 15, 2010

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Human Rights Hero Yuri Kochiyama

“Study history. Learn about yourselves and others. There’s more commonality in all our …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Nov. 15, 2010

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Journal Entry #1001 Cliches: "Deep Thoughts..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Nov. 13, 2010

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Japan in the World and the World

フロリダと天橋立～ヤマトコロニー先導者と丹後ちりめん－その２

＞＞その１謎が解け、コロニーの背景もこうして酒井氏と知り合ったことをきっかけとして、これ以後何人かの人たちに取材できたことで、酒井襄氏に関する謎が一気に解けていっただけでなく、ヤマトコロニーが誕生…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 12, 2010