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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?
A Name Reborn
Dad was given the name Yoneto. He never had a middle name. In Japanese tradition there is only a fi…

Mary Sunada • Oct. 13, 2024

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Hikotaro Yamada—The Mystery Veteran Rediscovered
While working on the forthcoming Cruising J-Town exhibition, I came upon the photo of a WWI veteran…

Oliver Wang • Aug. 1, 2024

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550 Pigs Cross the Pacific Ocean
The pig transport ship departed from Portland. The ship's name was the Owen. It set sail on Augus…

Tetsuro Shimojima • July 10, 2024

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Andrew Masaru Sato: Discovering Roots through Aikido—Part 1
Though not, perhaps, in the way one might think given his martial arts bonafides, in 1950 Chicago n…

Erik Matsunaga • May 1, 2024

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Utah Judicial Giant Raymond Uno Has Died at 93
Incarcerated as a boy in Heart Mountain, he also served as JACL national president. Raymond Sonj…

Pacific Citizen • April 9, 2024

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A New Look at Nisei Veterans: Lawrence Matsuda and Matt Sasaki’s Fighting for America
In recent years, Chin Music Press has produced a great run of graphic novels on the wartime Japanes…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Nov. 8, 2023

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The Poker Table—Part 4
Read Part 3 >> It was late in the afternoon, almost five o’clock, when Dad and I dropped off Tanak…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 30, 2023

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The Poker Table—Part 3
Read Part 2 >> That Saturday, when I arrived at my parents’ house to pick up Dad, he was already s…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 23, 2023

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The Poker Table—Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Today, talk of his poker gang’s tanomoshi has made Dad uncharacteristically nostalg…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 16, 2023

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The Poker Table—Part 1
Author’s note: My late Nisei father did indeed have a poker gang of his best friends who would meet…

Alden M. Hayashi • Oct. 9, 2023

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