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When I was in elementary, it was just me, my baa-chan, and my mom in a cramped, but comfortable apartment in Lttle Tokyo. Every morning, …
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In my childhood home in Roseville, California, we had a room we called “the den.” It was not the formal living room, where we had …
With the passing of Wakako Yamauchi, we have lost another community icon. In 1995, my late husband, George, and I bought a home in Gardena. …
I’ve been thinking about what we save. I’ve been looking through one of my oldest auntie’s scrapbooks. Because I know that it will also fall …
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I love natto. But it wasn’t always that way. My mom gave me my first taste when I was around seven or eight years old …
Walking into the Vida Group Building on South Los Angeles Street, I couldn’t help but sense the ghosts of the past. In the grey building …
On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 30, 2013, four current Japanese American National Museum (JANM) staff members and one past staffer emailed me about the …
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Mal vindos do cogumelo de 1945, meus avós maternos e paternos. Sonhando novas aventuras, novas sementes e novos amores. Os jovens vieram do outro lado …
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Siempre que me sorprende el cielo con el tono azul, me llena de nostalgia. La envidia de los colores produce en mí el estado emocional …
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