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Eating Together Again for the Holidays
It’s been a long, sometimes lonely three years since COVID-19 arrived in the world and change…

Gil Asakawa • Jan. 3, 2023

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cooking cuisine families food holidays Japanese cuisine Japanese food New Year osechi cooking ozoni sashimi shabu-shabu
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My Grandmother's Ozoni
“She’s making soup!” That was my mother’s and my aunts’ hint to us c…

Hudson Okada • Jan. 5, 2018

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Brazil families food grandmothers grandparents Japanese food New Year Oshogatsu ozoni parents soccer sports
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Nikkei Oshogatsu Stories 2017 - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> A Nikkei Holiday Story By John Nishio This is the story of the 104th Annual …

John Nishio +2 • March 3, 2017

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Canada Chicago communities Discover Nikkei families food holidays Illinois Japanese food John Nishio kagami mochi mochi mochitsuki New Year Nima-kai Oshogatsu ozoni Regina Regina Japanese Canadian Club Saskatchewan traditions United States
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Japanese New Year’s Meal
The migration over to Southeast Portland on the first day of the year is something that I will alwa…

Justin Inahara • Jan. 18, 2017

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confectioneries families food holidays Japanese food Mikado (confectionery store) mochi mochitsuki New Year Oregon Oshogatsu ozoni Pacific Northwest Portland (Or.) traditions United States
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Celebration and Resistance Among Japanese Immigrants in Mexico: The Festival of Shōgatsu
The hundreds of thousands of Japanese immigrants who came to the Americas brought only the bare nec…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • Jan. 1, 2017

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communities festivals food holidays Japanese food matsuri Mexico New Year Oshogatsu ozoni toshikoshi soba World War II
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Celebrations of the End and Beginning of the Year in the Brazilian Nikkei Community
From mid-November until just before Christmas, gatherings to celebrate the end of the year take pla…

Henrique Minatogawa • Jan. 7, 2016

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bonenkai Brazil communities entertaining families food holidays Japanese food New Year Oshogatsu ozoni parties São Paulo shinnenkai traditions
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The Feast that Makes a Family
There’s gravel crackling under our car wheels as we drive up my Auntie Nesan’s driveway…

Tamiko Nimura • Jan. 1, 2016

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families food Hiroshi Kashiwagi holidays Japanese food New Year Oshogatsu ozoni Soji Kashiwagi Tamiko Nimura traditions
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Ozōni Soup for the JA Soul
When Matthew Hashiguchi first began to record his grandmother’s story, he expected to produ…

Kimiko Medlock • Oct. 29, 2015

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Canada documentaries films food Good Luck Soup (film) identity Japanese food Matthew Hashiguchi Midwest Region (U.S.) multiculturalism New Year ozoni United States
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Oshogatsu: memories of my childhood
My father came as an immigrant at the age of 16 with the family that adopted him, as he was a minor…

Rosa Tomeno Takada • Jan. 5, 2015

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Brazil families food Japanese food mochi mochitsuki New Year Oshogatsu ozoni
Brazil families food Japanese food mochi mochitsuki New Year Oshogatsu ozoni
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The New Year’s Holidays Defined by Mother’s Homemade Osechi Dishes
In Japan, I grew up in a so-called “nuclear family”—a family that consisted of a …

Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 1, 2015

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food hatsumode holidays Japanese food mochi New Year osechi cooking Oshogatsu ozoni religions Shinto traditions
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