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Read Part 3 >> Back to the store… Upstairs at the rear was a huge kitchen ar…

Frank Maikawa • March 27, 2013

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The Evolution of A Canadian 'Enemy Alien' - The Frank Maikawa Story - Part 3 of 12

Read Part 2 >> Frank Is Born I was a nine-pound baby when I was born and every time…

Frank Maikawa • March 20, 2013

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The Evolution of A Canadian 'Enemy Alien' - The Frank Maikawa Story - Part 2 of 12

Read Part 1 >> Remembering ‘Okasan’ and ‘Otosan’ My mother…

Frank Maikawa • March 13, 2013

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The Evolution of A Canadian 'Enemy Alien' - The Frank Maikawa Story - Part 1 of 12

Pre-War Days & Immigration The story started sometime in the mid-1920s when my father, Bungoro …

Frank Maikawa • March 6, 2013

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Adventures of a Nikkei Fan Boy

My Mom's Powell Street

A thriving Japanese Canadian community in Vancouver before World War II. * This comic was ori…

Raymond Nakamura • Jan. 9, 2013

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Powell St. Festival 2012

Familiar scenes from the 2012 Powell Street Festival in Vancouver, BC in Canada. * This was origin…

Raymond Nakamura • Oct. 17, 2012

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Future Festival: Mayu Takasaki Brings Us The Powell Street Festival

It was only supposed to be a one shot deal. Now it is Vancouver’s longest running ethnic fest…

Kenji Tokawa • June 11, 2012

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A DVD and Two Books about Pearl Harbor

ONE AUGUST MORNING, time allowed for me to view Killer Subs at Pearl Harbor, a DVD about the five J…

Harry K. Honda • Dec. 7, 2011

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「南米日系人のソフトパワー」〜自国でソフトパワーなり、日本との架け橋にも〜

「ソフトパワー」とは、アメリカのハーバード大学のジョセフ・ナイ教授が2004年に提唱した概念である1。それは、国家がハードパワーという軍事力や経済力等だけに頼らず、その国の文化や価値観、外交政策によ…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • April 16, 2013

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