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Otto and Iris Yamaoka: Asian Actors in 1930s Hollywood - Part 1
As readers of this column know, I have done a great deal of research in recent years on the panoply…

Greg Robinson • April 17, 2022

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acting actors artists entertainers Hollywood films Otto Yamaoka prewar
acting actors artists entertainers Hollywood films Otto Yamaoka prewar
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Actor Eiji Inoue moved to the US in 1992 with the goal of winning an Academy Award
After retiring from teaching, he went to Hollywood. Your life is made up of choices, decisions, an…

Keiko Fukuda • June 21, 2021

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acting actors artists California Eiji Inouye entertainers generations Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
acting actors artists California Eiji Inouye entertainers generations Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
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Entertainer in Japan under GHQ occupation: Japanese-Canadian Nisei actor and singer Sally (Satoshi) Nakamura
According to Ken Adachi’s The Enemy That Never Was, there were about 1,500 Japanese-Canadia…

Yusuke Tanaka • June 9, 2021

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acting actors artists entertainers generations Japanese Canadians Nisei Satoshi "Sally" Nakamura
acting actors artists entertainers generations Japanese Canadians Nisei Satoshi "Sally" Nakamura
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Memories of my grandfather Kenichi Fujishiro
My grandfather Kenichi Fujishiro, a Japanese who arrived in Cuba more than a hundred years ago and…

Lidia Antonia Sánchez Fujishiro • June 1, 2020

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Chiba Prefecture confectioneries Cuba families immigrants immigration Japan Kenichi Fujishiro migration pioneers Santiago (Cuba)
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Yoko Tani: the Mysterious Life of a Nikkei Actor
Yoko Tani, an Asian actor working primarily in the 1950s and 1960s, was born Itani Yoko. Though b…

Terry Watada • June 21, 2019

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acting actors artists entertainers French (persons) Japanese movies Teru Shimada The Sweet and the Bitter (film) Yoko Tani
acting actors artists entertainers French (persons) Japanese movies Teru Shimada The Sweet and the Bitter (film) Yoko Tani
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David Toguri: An Appreciation
Not much is known about David Toguri’s early life. He’s also not well-known in the Asia…

Terry Watada • May 30, 2019

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acting actors artists Canada choreographers dance David Toguri entertainers Flower Drum Song (film) Japanese Canadians movies
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Teru Shimada - a Japanese American Pioneer in Hollywood - Part 1
One of the great leading men of motion picture history was Sessue Hayakawa, whose magnetic good loo…

Greg Robinson • April 30, 2019

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acting actors Arizona artists arts concentration camps entertainers films performing arts Poston concentration camp Teru Shimada theater United States World War II World War II camps
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Teru Shimada - a Japanese American Pioneer in Hollywood - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> In summer 1945, while still confined at Poston, Teru Shimada was cast as a Fi…

Greg Robinson • April 30, 2019

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acting actors Arizona artists arts concentration camps entertainers films performing arts Poston concentration camp Teru Shimada theater United States World War II World War II camps
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Actor Naoyuki Ikeda: From moving to the US to winning the Actors Award
After 13 years as an English teacher in Japan, I moved to America where I can thrive In March 2019,…

Keiko Fukuda • April 22, 2019

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acting actors artists entertainers generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Naoyuki Ikeda postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
acting actors artists entertainers generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Naoyuki Ikeda postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
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Valley of the Heart: A Reflection
When people ask me what it’s like to be doing Valley of the Heart by the Luis Valdez at the M…

Scott Keiji Takeda • Dec. 14, 2018

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acting actors artists Asian Americans East West Players (organization) entertainers identity imprisonment incarceration Mexican Americans plays Scott Takeda Valley of the Heart (play) World War II
acting actors artists Asian Americans East West Players (organization) entertainers identity imprisonment incarceration Mexican Americans plays Scott Takeda Valley of the Heart (play) World War II
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