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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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Nikkei and Japanese literature in Peru opens space
At the risk of optimism being refuted with regional reading level indicators, some of the initiativ…

Javier García Wong-Kit • March 27, 2024

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authors graphic novels literature manga Peru poems writers
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Usagi Yojimbo: The Year of The Samurai Rabbit!
The adventure of a lifetime started nearly 40 years ago for Stan Sakai with the creation of his com…

Lois Kajiwara • Oct. 29, 2023

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California comic books comic-cons comics conventions graphic novels Hawaii manga San Diego San Diego Comic-Con Stan Sakai United States Usagi Yojimbo (comic)
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We Hereby Refuse: The Illustrated Stories of Camp Resistance
“It’s the story of camp as you’ve never seen it before,” said Frank Abe, …

Kyra Karatsu • June 11, 2021

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Frank Abe graphic novels Hiroshi Kashiwagi Jim Akutsu Mitsuye Endo resisters Tamiko Nimura We Hereby Refuse (book) World War II World War II camps
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Writing We Hereby Refuse: 3 Things I Learned about Resistance
When I was a little kid in California in the early 1980s, it was cool to be a rebel, or a resister.…

Tamiko Nimura • March 2, 2021

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California concentration camps families graphic novels no-no boys resistance Tule Lake concentration camp United States We Hereby Refuse (book) World War II camps
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Kiku Hughes’ graphic novel Displacement addresses the intergenerational trauma of Japanese American incarceration through a story of time travel
A time-travel graphic novel about intergenerational Japanese American camp history is a surprise.…

Tamiko Nimura • Jan. 18, 2021

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Displacement (graphic novel) graphic novels Kiku Hughes
Displacement (graphic novel) graphic novels Kiku Hughes
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Canadian Nikkei Artist
On Being Yukiko: New Kids Book Explores Japanese Canadian Identity - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Lillian, who is Yukiko? In a nutshell, what is the story of Yukiko? Lillia…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Nov. 18, 2020

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artists authors books COVID-19 filmmakers graphic novels hapa identity Japanese Canadians library materials publications racially mixed people World War II
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Canadian Nikkei Artist
On Being Yukiko: New Kids Book Explores Japanese Canadian Identity - Part 1
In many ways, On Being Yukiko, a new graphic novel by Lillian Michiko Blakey (Newmarket, Ontario)…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Nov. 17, 2020

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artists authors books COVID-19 filmmakers graphic novels identity Japanese Canadians library materials publications World War II
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Japanese manga guerrillas who fought against the military government for freedom of expression
Against the Brazilian military regime (1964-1985), which controlled freedom of speech with tanks an…

Masayuki Fukasawa • April 8, 2019

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Brazil Brazilian Association of Manga and Illustration Designers dictatorships generations graphic novels Keizi Minami manga Nisei Sanjuro (book)
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Graphic Novel Recalls Experiences of 442nd RCT
Against the contemporary backdrop of the immigration debate and family separation, of nationality-b…

The Rafu Shimpo • March 13, 2019

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442nd Regimental Combat Team graphic novels United States Army World War II
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