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Yo! This is Who I Am: Kevin Charles Keizuchi of The Shinsei Movement—Part 1
Kevin Charles Keizuchi • April 24, 2024
Part 12: Iguazu Coffee—Loved by Locals and the World
Tomoko Oura • April 24, 2024
Tying a Family Together: My Grandmother’s Wedding Obi
Caitlin Oiye Coon • April 23, 2024
Tomekichi Homma (Part 2) — Early Activist
Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 22, 2024
Tomekichi Homma (Part 1) — Early Activist
Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 21, 2024
Journal Entry #Created in '27: "Pfeffermintz..."
Neal Yamamoto • April 20, 2024
We Are Not Strangers—A Story of a Sephardic Jew and His Japanese American Neighbor
Pamela A. Okano • April 19, 2024
Featured Stories
Eriko Higa, born in Japan, raised in Bolivia, became a lawyer in the United States
Keiko Fukuda • April 24, 2023
The secret to living to 100 years old in good health - Yoshiaki Umezaki, a walking dictionary of immigration history - Part 1
Masayuki Fukasawa • April 11, 2023
Tad Nakamura’s Art and Activism
Helen Yoshida • April 25, 2023
The Chuo Gakuen School: The Seeds of Prestige for the Japanese Community in Mexico
Sergio Hernández Galindo • June 3, 2016
The Child of a Thousand Generations
Chanda Ishisaka • Nov. 24, 2014
Bisa AIKO and her 102nd birthday
Katsuo Higuchi • Feb. 17, 2023
Series
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Amina Abuthahir +129 • Dec. 15, 2016 - April 18, 2024
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column is a space for the Nikkei community to share stories through diverse writings on culture, history, and personal experience. The column will feature a wide variety of poetic form and subject matter with themes that …
Dekasegi Story
Laura Honda-Hasegawa • June 18, 2012 - April 18, 2024
In 1988, I read a news article about dekasegi and had an idea: "This might be a good subject for a novel." But I never imagined that I would end up becoming the author of this novel... In 1990, I …
The Amazing Tashiro Family
Greg Robinson • Oct. 13, 2023 - April 12, 2024
This is the story of the Tashiro clan of Cincinnati, New England, North Carolina and Seattle. Though oddly unheard of today, the Tashiros rank high in the category of diverse and accomplished Japanese American families, whose members distinguished themselves in …
Much Mahalos
Lee A. Tonouchi • Oct. 11, 2023 - March 29, 2024
In this series, acclaimed author "Da Pidgin Guerrilla" Lee A. Tonouchi uses the language of Hawai‘i Creole, a.k.a. Pidgin, to talk story with accomplished and up-and coming Japanese/Okinawan Americans from Hawai‘i. Interviewees discuss their passions, their triumphs, as well as their …
Excerpts from In Search of Hiroshi
Ana Iwataki +1 • March 3, 2024 - March 24, 2024
This series presents excerpts from Gene Oishi’s memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of his childhood wartime incarceration. In Search of Hiroshi was originally published in 1988 and has long …
On Nikkei
Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 11, 2022 - March 22, 2024
What is Nikkei? Ryusuke Kawai, a non-fiction writer who translated "No-No Boy," covers a variety of topics related to Nikkei, including people, history, books, movies, and music, focusing on his own involvement with Nikkei.
