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Shig Murao: A Samurai Family (1920)

Shigekata Murao is pacing around his room in the most expensive inn in Chiran, the town where he gr…

Richard Reynolds • Nov. 10, 2011

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West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care

Part IV: Seattle’s Nikkei Concerns

Having surveyed the landscape of Nikkei long-term care choices in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Sacram…

Nancy Matsumoto • April 8, 2011

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Interview with Jamie Ford, Author of "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet"

As public programs manager at the Japanese American National Museum, I receive a lot of books about…

Koji Steven Sakai • April 5, 2011

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Issei Pioneers - Hawaii and the Mainland 1885 - 1924 - Part 10

Read Part 9 >> LABOR CONTRACTORS Unlike Hawaii, where plantation workers had direct cont…

Akemi Kikumura Yano • March 7, 2011

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APA Spotlight

Tom Ikeda, Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

Tom Ikeda is the founding Executive Director of Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project. Using…

Koji Steven Sakai • March 1, 2011

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From Densho's Archives

Evacuation or Exclusion? Japanese Americans Exiled

“They came here to be American.”…

Denshō • Feb. 22, 2011

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Author Jamie Ford: From Eating Scones to Writing a Bestseller

“On the side of the trunk was the name Shimizu, hand-painted in large white letters. It was o…

Edward Yoshida • Jan. 20, 2011

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Nikkei View

History in the Northwest

11:00 a.m.Here I sit in my rental car, mere yards from the water. I’m waiting for the Bainbri…

Gil Asakawa • Nov. 23, 2010

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Naotaro and Tsuruko, My Issei Parents - Part 1

Naotaro Ito was born in 1886 as a second son to a rice farming family in Kitsuneji, a tiny rural ha…

Roy T. Ito • Nov. 21, 2008

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Finding and Preparing The Elusive Matsutake Mushroom

A rare, sunny, mildly humid Northwest Labor Day weekend in 2004 arrived shortly after four consecut…

Thomas Tsutsumoto • April 18, 2008

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