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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #4 Truly Great Gifts: "Money is Good, Too..."

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 7, 2024

The Nikkei community of Cuba

In Cuba there is a long history of descendants of Japanese citizens, and this places them within th…

Lidia Antonia Sánchez Fujishiro • Dec. 6, 2024

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

Discovering Myself in My Name

My parents named me James Noboru Okumura. My birth certificate from The Japanese Hospital of Los An…

James Okumura • Dec. 6, 2024

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Pulling a Fast one? E.V. Cunningham and the Masuto Mysteries

Some time ago, I published a column in Nichi Bei News discussing writer Len Zinberg, who wrote a sh…

Greg Robinson • Dec. 5, 2024

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A beautiful name

Hiromi-chan, iiiko, right! – that’s how Mrs. Takeko, also known as Mrs. Carmen, rocked the baby whi…

Edna Hiromi Ogihara Cardoso • Dec. 5, 2024

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Kayo Imamura, a family therapist who moved to the United States in 2004 and is based in San Diego

I had no desire to go to America and my English was not good. Kayo Imamura, a family and marriag…

Keiko Fukuda • Dec. 4, 2024

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Mako

This is Arthur Makoto Kikuchi, my grandpa. I’ll never know, but my assumption is that his parents, …

Mako Kikuchi • Dec. 4, 2024

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