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I work at a Japanese-American community newspaper where, every Halloween, we have the same conversation. Then something happens — like Katy Perry gives a performance, …
Read Part 1 >> Why I don’t think it’s cultural appropriation Kimono try on is an established part of Japanese cultural sharing. One of my …
Update 7/7/15 4:37pm: I emailed and left voicemail for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA) on Friday, July 3. It seems that about an …
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As with most people who subscribe to cable television, I suffer through an endless number of inconveniences, indignities, and monetary insults. When the signal becomes …
When Claremont-based fabric artist Sumi Foley was a child growing up in Osaka, Japan, she often spent the night at her grandmother’s house. Her Obā-san …
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For a long time, there were painfully few novels that were about the experience of Japanese Americans who were put into concentration camps during World …
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Growing up, Jane Aiko Yamano never dreamed that she would be the heir to her remarkable grandmother and the various beauty and health schools she …
“When my two sisters and I were younger, we lived in my maternal grandparents’ home in Tokyo....In those summer months, we could hardly wait to …
It’s often noted that James Shigeta is the only Asian American actor to be groomed as a romantic lead in Hollywood’s studio system. At a …
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第1部を読む >> ウルグアイの日系人が最も多く従事した業種は花卉栽培で、40年ぐらい前までは花卉事業で十分な利益を得ることが可能だったようである…
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