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10th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Ba-chan
When I was in elementary, it was just me, my baa-chan, and my mom in a cramped, but comfortable apa…

Zoe Lerdworatawee • June 9, 2023

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California Little Tokyo Los Angeles memory United States
California Little Tokyo Los Angeles memory United States
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Love and Reckoning: A Meditation On Family Photos
In my childhood home in Roseville, California, we had a room we called “the den.” It wa…

Tamiko Nimura • Dec. 6, 2022

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families family histories genealogy memory World War II camps
families family histories genealogy memory World War II camps
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The blue of the sky
Whenever the sky surprises me with its blue tone, it fills me with nostalgia. Color envy produces …

Luis Iguchi Iguchi • Aug. 8, 2022

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Jauja memory Peru
Jauja memory Peru
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Jauja: Return to my past
Wednesday, March 23, 2022. For the first time I arrived to Jauja by plane from the city of Lima, th…

Luis Iguchi Iguchi • April 20, 2022

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Jauja memory Peru
Jauja memory Peru
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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Remains
From Toronto-based writer, Terry Watada and Bloomington, Indiana-based poet, Hiromi Yoshida, are pi…

Hiromi Yoshida +2 • Nov. 21, 2019

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authors Discover Nikkei families fathers Hiromi Yoshida literature memory mothers Nikkei Uncovered (series) poetry poets Terry Watada Turkey (country)
authors Discover Nikkei families fathers Hiromi Yoshida literature memory mothers Nikkei Uncovered (series) poetry poets Terry Watada Turkey (country)
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What We Save, How We Save, How We Love: On Family and Community Archives
I’ve been thinking about what we save.  I’ve been looking through one of my old…

Tamiko Nimura • June 26, 2018

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archives community history families family histories genealogy generations history Japanese Americans memory preservation
archives community history families family histories genealogy generations history Japanese Americans memory preservation
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Treasure Hunters: Takachizu on Los Angeles Street seeks to record community memories and mementos.
Walking into the Vida Group Building on South Los Angeles Street, I couldn’t help but sense t…

Gwen Muranaka • Nov. 10, 2016

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California Little Tokyo Los Angeles mementos memory souvenirs (keepsakes) United States Vida Group Building
California Little Tokyo Los Angeles mementos memory souvenirs (keepsakes) United States Vida Group Building
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Memories of a Colleague and Friend: Karin Higa
On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 30, 2013, four current Japanese American National Museum (JA…

Arthur A. Hansen • Nov. 22, 2013

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art history Arthur A. Hansen arts Asian American art curators ethnic art historians Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Karin Higa Laura Kina Lloyd Inui memory museums tributes United States
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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race
Memory Says
Nearly every year my husband remembers that we got married on October the 24, 1998. We did not. Ste…

Roxzana Sudo • Oct. 31, 2013

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Brazil Discover Nikkei families hapa Japan marriages memory Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei+ (series) photographs photography racially mixed people weddings
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My Name is Neal
Journal Entry #2 Hemispheres: "Brain-wiped..."
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Oct. 20, 2012

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aging cartoonists cartoons humor memory
aging cartoonists cartoons humor memory
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