ylkawashima

Los Angeles, California, United States

Nima since 2009

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Sep 200929

Authors on Asia Pacific Alliance: Reviving US-Japan Relations

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ylkawashima

United States
New York
New York

Sep 20092

Stroll Through a Japanese Garden

Other

ylkawashima

United States
California
San Marino

community
7 Sep 2009

A Token of Remembrance: Passing It On by Yuri Kochiyama

Yoshimi Kawashima

In 1998, then seventy-seven year old Yuri Kochiyama began writing her memoir, after years of contemplating what to leave her grandchildren in remembrance of their family’s heritage. Whatever path they, or anyone who reads this memoir, choose to take, Yuri believes that, at the very least, one should be aware …

2009 Tanabata Festival

community history

ylkawashima

What better way to connect to the community than through beautiful craft work? Surprisingly Nisei Week, the Little Tokyo Public Safety Association's Brian Kito, and the Japanese American National Museum …

Tanabata at JANM 2009

other

ylkawashima

After witnessing the beautifully elaborate Tanabata decorations in Sao Paulo, the Discover Nikkei staff who went to Brazil in 2007 asked, Yoshihito Yonezawa, president of Nanka Miyagi Kenjinkai if he …

Sep 200912

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

Film & Other Media

ylkawashima

United States
Washington
Bellevue

identity
26 Aug 2009

How Japanese is Japanese-American?

Yoshimi Kawashima

Are you Japanese? Do you speak Japanese? You look Japanese. Isn't your name Japanese? These are questions that I have heard all of my life, and at times I felt that they tried too hard to constrict me into a nice neat mold. I felt like the abstract block trying …

Aug 200922

Sep 200930

Nisei Week: Nobuyuki Okada Photo Exhibit

ylkawashima

United States
California
Los Angeles

Aug 200929

Annual Japanese Fall Festival "Aki Matsuri"

ylkawashima

United States
Utah
Salt Lake City

Sep 200917

Life for Foreign Workers in Japan

Conference/Presentation

ylkawashima

United States
California
San Francisco

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Yoshimi is a former intern of Discover Nikkei during the summer of 2009 and started her engagement with the JA community when she joined the Nikkei Student Union and Kyodo Taiko team at UCLA during her college career.