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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
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
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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The Spaces In Between: Artist Elysha Rei's Intricate Hand-Cut Paper Art
While the sakura were in full bloom outside the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, inside, a differ…

Kelly Fleck • July 16, 2023

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60 Years of Friendship Through Culture (exhibition) British Columbia Canada cultural identity Elysha Rei group identity identity Japanese Australians Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Ontario Past Wrongs, Future Choices (project) Toronto University of Victoria
60 Years of Friendship Through Culture (exhibition) British Columbia Canada cultural identity Elysha Rei group identity identity Japanese Australians Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Ontario Past Wrongs, Future Choices (project) Toronto University of Victoria
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Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage
Finding My Community
Growing up in the Central Valley of California, more specifically Fresno, my experience with the Ni…

Drew Yamamura • July 14, 2023

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Asian Camp Boy Scouts California camps communities Fresno identity Japanese American basketball leagues Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive (program) Manzanar at Dusk (program) Manzanar Committee (organization) National Japanese American United Methodist Caucus Nikkei Student Union (UC Berkeley) summer camps United States
Asian Camp Boy Scouts California camps communities Fresno identity Japanese American basketball leagues Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive (program) Manzanar at Dusk (program) Manzanar Committee (organization) National Japanese American United Methodist Caucus Nikkei Student Union (UC Berkeley) summer camps United States
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Yumi Aoyama, a new second-generation Japanese-American born and raised in the United States who spent four and a half years in Japan after graduating from college
New Nisei-ness I was born and raised in Japan and moved to America, so I am what they call a "…

Keiko Fukuda • July 3, 2023

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generations identity immigration Japan Japanese Americans postwar Shin-Nisei United States World War II
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Mules on Izenajima, Okinawa
Did you know there are mules on Izenajima (Izena Island)? Well, recently there were two roaming aro…

Colin Y. Sewake • July 3, 2023

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families identity Izena Island Japan Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture Uchinanchu
families identity Izena Island Japan Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture Uchinanchu
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Reflecting on the short film Whole and mixed Japanese identities
On Friday 18 November 2022, Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains and I held a film screening of the short fil…

Aoife Wilkinson • July 2, 2023

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Australia ethnicity group identity identity Japanese Japanese Australians multiculturalism race racially mixed people Whole (film) youth
Australia ethnicity group identity identity Japanese Japanese Australians multiculturalism race racially mixed people Whole (film) youth
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8 things I learned writing about Nikkei
My story in the Nikkei community began in 2008, exactly in the year in which the Centenary of Japan…

Tatiana Maebuchi • June 14, 2023

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Brazil identity Japanese Brazilians
Brazil identity Japanese Brazilians
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Interview with Emi Sasagawa, Author of Atomweight
Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has be…

John Endo Greenaway • May 10, 2023

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authors British Columbia Canada Emi Sasagawa families fiction hapa identity Japanese Brazilians journalism journalists LGBTQ+ novels people racially mixed people Vancouver (B.C.) writers
authors British Columbia Canada Emi Sasagawa families fiction hapa identity Japanese Brazilians journalism journalists LGBTQ+ novels people racially mixed people Vancouver (B.C.) writers
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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
generations identity Japanese Americans languages Nikkei in Japan Yonsei
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