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Matthew Mejia +1 • May 16, 2024

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The Making and Evolution of Yuriko Gamo Romer's Baseball Documentaries: Diamond Diplomacy and Baseball Behind Barbed Wire

Since 1998, Yuriko Gamo Romer’s Flying Carp Productions has been responsible for producing a …

Kristopher Kato • May 15, 2024

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Never Been Better: Author Leanne Toshiko Simpson Uses Romantic Comedy to Explore Mental Illness

TORONTO — Author Leanne Toshiko Simpson’s offbeat and big-hearted romantic comedy, Neve…

Kelly Fleck • May 14, 2024

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Nikkei Paraguayan Identity Center: History, memory, identity and legacy

“We wanted any place in America to come and live. We heard very nice things about Paraguay,&r…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 14, 2024

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Life of One Pidgin Linguist: How Kent Sakoda became da Pidgin Yoda

Small kid time Kent Sakoda, 72 wuzn’t known as Kent “Yoda” Sakoda yet. He wuz j…

Lee A. Tonouchi • May 13, 2024

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Prominent among the few Issei to be accepted in mainstream American culture in the years befor…

Greg Robinson • May 12, 2024

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Journal Entry #700 B.C. by Homer: "Screamin' Meemies..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • May 11, 2024

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