Read "Racism in America" Even today, discrimination and conflict over "race" continues to occur all over the world. In particular, in the United States, which has been called the "melting pot of races," incidents that appear to be discrimination and prejudice against black and Asian people occur repeatedly. For Japanese …
Kotaro Sudo in Miami Beach Writing a non-fiction book and receiving letters from readers with their thoughts and impressions is a great way to discover new things and is a joy. Two years ago, I received a letter through my publisher from a 91-year-old woman who said she had read …
Read "Seeing the World from Immigrant Ships: A Modern History of Japan's Sea Route Experiences." In Japan, an island nation, it is now common for people to travel abroad by airplane, apart from luxury liner cruises. However, at least until shortly after the war, the only way to travel was …
Wakayama Prefecture is an "immigration prefecture" that has produced many immigrants, as seen in the American Village in Mihama Town, Wakayama Prefecture, which faces the Kii Channel, and I had heard that Wakayama City has a facility that respects this history, the Immigration Materials Room, which collects materials related to …
If you head towards the Kii Peninsula along the coastline from Ago Bay in Mie Prefecture, you will arrive at Kushimoto Town, the southernmost town on the main island of Honshu. In my previous article, I wrote about how men used to come from here to harvest pearl oysters (white …
Bring on the immigration fever In the previous article (No. 32) , "From Americamura in Shima City, Mie Prefecture," I introduced the fact that Takeuchi Kosuke, the grandfather of Takeuchi Toshikazu, the owner of a jazz cafe that I stopped at during my trip, traveled to the United States and …
I knew that there had been Japanese people going to Australia to collect white pearl oysters (commonly known as pearl oysters) since the Meiji period, but while traveling along the coastline of the Kii Peninsula from Mie Prefecture, I happened to hear from someone who told me that his grandfather …
From Americamura in Shima City, Mie Prefecture Since the year before last, I have been traveling by car along the coastline of Japan. I don't travel all at once, but in several trips, starting from my home in Kanagawa Prefecture, and I try to drive along the outline of the …
Read the first part >> The journey to publishing in Japanese --How did the Japanese version come to be, and why was it published by E-Compress? It seems that E-Compress is not a company that has worked on this type of book much. Iwata: When Shirley published the original book, …
The recently published Japanese translation of "Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of Japanese American Internment" (Shirley Ann Higuchi, Ecom Press) is a powerful work in which the third-generation Japanese-American author vividly describes her own family history while tracing the issue of the internment of Japanese-Americans during the war. …
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