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Never Been Better: Author Leanne Toshiko Simpson Uses Romantic Comedy to Explore Mental Illness
TORONTO — Author Leanne Toshiko Simpson’s offbeat and big-hearted romantic comedy, Neve…

Kelly Fleck • May 14, 2024

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authors comedy fiction generational trauma generations Japanese Canadians Leanne Toshiko Simpson literature mental health Never Been Better (book) novels romances writers Yonsei
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Ken Nakazawa Rediscovered
Part I—The Early Years
Prominent among the few Issei to be accepted in mainstream American culture in the years befor…

Greg Robinson • May 12, 2024

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biographies California Fukushima Prefecture generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan journalism Los Angeles migration Oregon plays Portland (Or.) prewar Tohoku United States University of Southern California
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Author Leslie Shimotakahara's Novels Offer Literary Passageways to Places in the Past
TORONTO — Award-winning author Leslie Shimotakahara transports readers to another time a…

Kelly Fleck • April 30, 2024

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British Columbia Canada fiction Japanese Canadians Leslie Shimotakahara literature logging novels Ontario Queen Charlotte Islands Sisters of the Spruce (book) Toronto
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Carlos Yushimito: The inevitable readings of a writer
His days pass in the academic world, in Viña del Mar, a city in the interior of Chile where …

Javier García Wong-Kit • April 9, 2024

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authors Carlos Yushimito del Valle Chile literature Peru poetry United States writers
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Nikkei and Japanese literature in Peru opens space
At the risk of optimism being refuted with regional reading level indicators, some of the initiativ…

Javier García Wong-Kit • March 27, 2024

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authors graphic novels literature manga Peru poems writers
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#45 Interview with Maeda Ippei, translator of "Anshu" - Part 2
Juliet S. Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-Am…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 8, 2024

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No. 45 Interview with Maeda Ippei, translator of Anshuu (Darkness) — Part 1
Juliet Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-Ameri…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 23, 2024

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Anshu (book) atomic bomb survivors Buddhism hibakusha Juliet S. Kono literature religions translations
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No. 44: Accepting all hardships—The world of the novel "Darkness"
Unique "Japanese Literature" For second- and third-generation Japanese American or Canadi…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 9, 2024

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Anshu (book) atomic bomb survivors Hawaii hibakusha Juliet S. Kono literature United States
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My Name is Neal
Journal Entry #Around 80,000 Words: "Novel Novels..."
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Sept. 23, 2023

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authors books cartoonists cartoons humor library materials literature publications
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Sadakichi Hartmann and Nisei Writers: An Early Mentor and Inspiration
Floyd Cheung, my brilliant friend and sometime collaborator, is a devoted scholar of Asian Americ…

Greg Robinson • July 27, 2023

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authors generations German Japanese Germany Karl Sadakichi Hartmann literature Nisei playwrights poetry poets writers
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