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Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage
Between Two Kanji
“Nikkei” means Japanese descendants born outside Japan. Once I taught a Japanese stude…

Liana Nakamura • Oct. 25, 2023

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Brazil dekasegi foreign workers Japan Japanese Brazilians Nikkei in Japan
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Will Ireton Uses Analytics, Trackman to Help Dodger Players Improve Their Performances
What becomes clear after meeting Will Ireton is that there is more to him than meets the eye. Muc…

Chris Komai • Oct. 18, 2023

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baseball baseball fields baseball operations analysis California hapa Japan Kenta Maeda Los Angeles Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball (organization) Nikkei in Japan Philippines racially mixed people sports sports tournaments Texas Rangers (baseball team) tournaments United States Will Ireton World Baseball Classic
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Kenzo Kobashigawa, the sensei of dekasegi past
For Peruvians over 45 years of age, 1989 was probably one of the worst years in the history of thei…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Sept. 27, 2023

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dekasegi foreign workers Japan Japanese languages Nikkei in Japan Peru
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Home Leaver: A Japanese American Search for Belonging
Chapter 5—Japan as Number One
I was waiting near the entrance to the third university in Tokyo where I was to teach as a visiting…

Lon Kurashige • Aug. 25, 2023

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Japan Japanese Americans Nikkei in Japan United States
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A Journey of Self-Discovery: My “Japaneseness” — Part 1
A “journey” can be described as a path or road one takes to reach a destination. Like…

Vince Takemi Ebata • July 30, 2023

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emigrations generations Hawaii Honshu identity Japan Japanese Americans Kagoshima Prefecture Nikkei Nikkei in Japan retirement Sansei United States
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Shizuka Anderson, Canadian Japanese Actor, TV Presenter, “Japan by Food” Host, and Singer: The Evolution of Her Hafu/Nikkei Identity
Readers were introduced to byFood.com, “Japan’s One-stop Food Platform,” in Disco…

Karen Kawaguchi • July 18, 2023

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acting actors Alberta artists byFood (website) Canada Edmonton entertainers identity Japan by Food (YouTube) Japanese Canadians Nikkei in Japan racially mixed people Shizuka Anderson
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Joshua Thomson, a British man born and raised in Japan
My grandparents came to Japan One day, a conversation between a white man and an African-American w…

Keiko Fukuda • July 17, 2023

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Japan multiculturalism non-Nikkei in Japan
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Home Leaver: A Japanese American Search for Belonging
Chapter 3—The Missionary
“So what kind of person do you think the author is?” I asked the students in my class…

Lon Kurashige • June 30, 2023

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Americanization Americans assimilation economics equality individualism Japanese Nikkei in Japan political science self-interest sociology United States
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On Nikkei
No. 29 Rakugo in Three Languages ​​~ Japanese-American Female Rakugo Artist Ramuone
Vibrant Although there are not many attempts to perform rakugo in English, it seems to have become…

Ryusuke Kawai • May 26, 2023

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beverages Brazil dekasegi foreign workers humor Japan Japanese Brazilians Nikkei in Japan rakugo ramune storytelling
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Home Leaver: A Japanese American Search for Belonging
Chapter 1—Passing Time
As I strode down the station corridor past the ticket gates, I became nostalgic for my childhood in…

Lon Kurashige • April 28, 2023

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generations identity Japanese Americans languages Nikkei in Japan Yonsei
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