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Author Leslie Shimotakahara's Novels Offer Literary Passageways to Places in the Past
TORONTO — Award-winning author Leslie Shimotakahara transports readers to another time a…

Kelly Fleck • April 30, 2024

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British Columbia Canada fiction Japanese Canadians Leslie Shimotakahara literature logging novels Ontario Queen Charlotte Islands Sisters of the Spruce (book) Toronto
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We Are Not Strangers—A Story of a Sephardic Jew and His Japanese American Neighbor
Japanese Americans have heard about how non-Japanese helped some JA families during World War II. O…

Pamela A. Okano • April 19, 2024

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communities fiction graphic novels Jews Josh Tuininga Seattle United States Washington We are Not Strangers (book) World War II
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 47 (Part 1) "I want to go home, but I can't"
Eiji, the eldest son of two older sisters, was told by his parents to become a doctor in the future…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • April 18, 2024

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Brazil dekasegi families fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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Man Uses Historic Fiction to Portray Heroism of the 442nd
There have been non-fiction history books about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, but Andrew Lam …

John Sammon • March 25, 2024

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442nd Regimental Combat Team Andrew Lam fiction Repentance (book) Susumu Ito United States Army
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Naomi Hirahara’s Meticulously-Researched Mystery about Postwar Midcentury Japanese America
There’s a haunting in Naomi Hirahara’s latest novel, Evergreen—a much-antici…

Tamiko Nimura • March 14, 2024

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Evergreen (book) mystery fiction Naomi Hirahara postwar resettlements World War II
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 46: Who is Rihana in the painting?
On her 27th birthday, Hana got married to her husband, Eiji, who was three years younger than her a…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Feb. 27, 2024

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 45: I'm glad Fujiko is Japanese!
The Ozaki family was a large one. The eldest and second sons were married and lived together with t…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Jan. 16, 2024

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers identity Japan Japanese Brazilians Nikkei in Japan
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On Nikkei
Episode 40: The story of a Japanese doctor in Australia during wartime
Detention Centers, Institutions for Disease Control, and Wavering Feelings It is well known that at…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 24, 2023

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Australia fiction Japanese World War II camps
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The Poker Table—Part 4
Read Part 3 >> It was late in the afternoon, almost five o’clock, when Dad and I dropp…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 30, 2023

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The Poker Table—Part 3
Read Part 2 >> That Saturday, when I arrived at my parents’ house to pick up Dad, he w…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 23, 2023

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442nd Regimental Combat Team armed forces fiction generations loans mutual aid organizations Nisei peer-to-peer loans poker retired military personnel tanomoshi United States Army veterans
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