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Mochitsuki: Taking the (Rice) Cake

As I walk with my four kids into the U-M Center for Japanese Studies, we are heartened by the thump…

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang • Jan. 2, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #1—ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

Mochi and Me

Mochi is a quintessential Nikkei food. Mochi is a symbol of our ties to our ancestral homeland, the…

Ben Arikawa • Sept. 4, 2012

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Nikkei Chronicles #1—ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

Elsie Kikuchi’s J-Town

I’ve been driven by food all my life. My chubbiness, which I’ve never been able to shak…

Janice D. Tanaka • Aug. 29, 2012

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Nikkei Chronicles #1—ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

Food for New Year

“I can do better than that with one hand tied behind my back,” my father complained, ch…

Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey • July 3, 2012

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Oh! Oshogatsu! Missing Japanese New Year’s Day–Adventures in Multicultural Living

The doorbell rings. The dog barks. I turn on the porch light, open the front door, and… No …

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang • Jan. 10, 2012

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Mochitsuki

It was the 1960s. All the aunties and uncles gathered together. They drove to the Japanese Canadian…

April Sora • Jan. 1, 2012

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Mochitsuki Tradition: Mochi Making the Old School Way

Like turkey on Thanksgiving for Americans, a “must have” for Japanese and Nikkei around…

Soji Kashiwagi • Jan. 7, 2011

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Nikkei View

Happy New Year, Japanese-style

Unlike other Asian cultures, the Japanese don’t celebrate Lunar New Year. Instead, they celeb…

Gil Asakawa • Jan. 1, 2011

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New Year's Lore

It was the middle of the night, literally; I was sound asleep recovering from the hassles of the Ne…

Edward Moreno • Dec. 31, 2010

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Mochi Making Then and Now

NOW:As we near the end of the year and the beginning of a new year, many Japanese American organiza…

Gary T. Ono • Jan. 1, 2010

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