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Finding the Right “Keiko” — Part 2
Read Part 1 >>  When I arrived at The Plaza, I found Aunt Emiko watching a game show on…

Alden M. Hayashi • June 29, 2023

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Chinese characters fiction Japanese language kanji languages names writing
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Finding the Right “Keiko” — Part 1
Author’s note: After my mother had passed and my brothers and I were cleaning out her house, …

Alden M. Hayashi • June 28, 2023

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Chinese characters fiction Japanese language kanji languages names writing
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Kenji Toda: Groundbreaking Artist and Scholar
Not long ago I did a Discover Nikkei piece on the artist Bunji Tagawa, who made a career of scienti…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 3, 2021

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artists calligraphy Chicago generations Illinois immigrants immigration Issei Japan Kenji Toda migration penmanship United States University of Chicago writing zoology
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Yoshiyasu Fujii traveled to the United States in 1989 and is spreading Japanese calligraphy and spirit in America.
Building on the foundations Fujii Yoshiyasu, who teaches calligraphy and has classes in Seattle, W…

Keiko Fukuda • July 5, 2021

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calligraphy Oregon penmanship Portland (Or.) Seattle United States Washington writing Yoshiyasu Fujii
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Runs In the Family: Alex Shimo and Leslie Shimotakahara, Authors and Cousins
Growing up, cousins Alexandra Shimo and Leslie Shimotakahara only saw each othe…

Kelly Fleck • July 17, 2018

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families Japanese Canadians journalism writing
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Japanese American Name Culture - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Cultural Heritage and Assimilation The names that immigrant parents select f…

Tim Asamen • May 12, 2017

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Chinese characters culture generations identity immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese Americans Japanese language kanji languages migration names writing
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Japanese American Name Culture - Part 1
Is it Eisenhauer or Eisenhower? Gonzalez or Gonzales? Yasuzo or Yasudo? Whether they are misspellin…

Tim Asamen • May 11, 2017

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Chinese characters culture generations identity immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese Americans Japanese language kanji languages migration names writing
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An Endangered Custom
I am a Sansei Nikkei, 35 years old, born and raised in São Paulo. During childhood and adole…

Henrique Minatogawa • April 29, 2016

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Brazil Chinese characters communities customs (social) families generations identity Japanese Japanese language kanji languages Sansei traditions writing
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George – The Iconic Name of the Second Generation
7. You have Nisei relatives named Tak, Tad, George, Harry or Shig. — From 101 Ways To Tell…

Tim Asamen • April 20, 2016

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Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 California Chinese characters citizenship dual citizenship generations George (name) immigrants immigration Imperial Valley Issei Japan Japanese language kanji languages migration multinationality names Nisei prewar Southern California United States writing
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Nina Revoyr On Writing About Race and the Mountains - Q&A: Mixed-Race Japanese American Writer Discusses Her Latest Novel, "Lost Canyon"
I’ll always have a special love for Nina Revoyr’s writing. Her 2003 novel, Southland,…

Mia Nakaji Monnier • Sept. 21, 2015

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authors books Discover Nikkei fiction hapa hiking Honshu identity Japan Japanese language newspapers library materials Lost Canyon (book) Nagano Prefecture newspapers Nina Revoyr novels publications race racially mixed people racism Rafu Shimpo (newspaper) Southland (book) Wingshooters (book) writers writing
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