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Several years ago I heard people commenting about “The Teruya Orchestra” and saw that they animated…

Roberto Oshiro Teruya • April 24, 2018

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Exploring race and identity at the Hapa Half Heritage forum

What does it mean to be hapa? Interdisciplinary artist Paul Kikuchi has been thinking about that qu…

Bruce Rutledge • April 18, 2018

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NEW CAST, NEW ENERGY: Rehearsals under way for L.A. production of “Allegiance”

With rehearsals in full swing, the cast of the Los Angeles production of Allegiance met with local …

J.K. Yamamoto • Feb. 26, 2018

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Semi-Immersion

ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Nov. 16, 2017, I had a date with my cousin, Diane, to see Kuniko Fukushim…

David Yamaguchi • Feb. 7, 2018

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The road that connects "NIKKEI"

Late at night on January 30, 2017. After 23 hours of air travel, I arrived at Jorge Chavez Interna…

Yuko Nakasone • Jan. 3, 2018

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Tsuyoshi Matsumoto—A Different Wartime Story

The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 had immediate repercussions for Japanese America…

Greg Robinson • Oct. 12, 2017

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Gus Hokama: carnations to excite

—“Grandpa”, why is our face different from that of other Argentines? —Gus, we are Japanese... —Are…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • July 19, 2017

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Ken Ychicawa: Jazz, music and consciousness

For the painter Henri Matisse, the greatest exponent of Fauvism, a movement that has been defined a…

Javier García Wong-Kit • June 12, 2017

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Partying, music and Nisei youth in the 1960s and 1970s

A regular Nikkei crowd filled the dance halls every week. Witness to this are the Majestic Hall, th…

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato +1 • June 7, 2017

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Beto Shiroma, lifelong musician. More than 25 years dribbling

Beto Shiroma shakes his hand tightly. He seems to be full of energy, as if the day had just begun, …

Enrique Higa Sakuda +1 • May 10, 2017

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