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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “If I wrote the fortunes in Fortune Cookies - Revisited...” …
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Gary Ono’s sunny Little Tokyo apartment is a monument to the things he loves. Behind his dining room table hangs a Japanese illustrative scroll—vintage and …
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*Editor's Note: This article was written in 2004 and Fugetsu-do is currently celebrating its 112th anniversary. My grandfather, Seiichi Kito, was born in Gifu, in …
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In America, there is a great amount of interest about the origins of the fortune cookie. According to a study by Fitzerman-Blue, the fortune cookie—now …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, un-fortune cookies...by Neal. Check back every weekend for subsequent entries...
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Read Part 1 >> Japantown Family and Personal Recollections By now, my childhood flashback images of my grandfather’s semi-automatic sembei machine are stroboscopic visual pulsations. …
The fortune cookie, the famous and fun gratuitous dessert, is unfailingly gifted following delicious meals in all Chinese restaurants throughout the world. So this uniquely …
2007 marks another year of the boar since its last turn of the animal wheel twelve years ago. I am a proud 1983 boar. Friends …
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