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Acculturation
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
Moving here, looking like a Japanese and not speaking it really felt strange. I think …
Preserving traditional Japanese culture
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
At the same time, the culture that the Japanese have is something that we really …
New Year's food
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
And I think that the Japanese Americans eat more Japanese food than the Japanese people …
Japanese are more accustomed to foreigners
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
Because we look Japanese, but we really didn’t know the Japanese customs, the Japanese language…the …
Her experience as a Japanese-American schoolchild in Oceanside, California, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Wakako Nakamura Yamauchi May 22, 1998
I was seventeen, I was a senior in high school. We were making ready; this …
Food growing up
Wayne Shigeto Yokoyama November 13, 2003
My parents spoke Japanese to each other. My mother would speak English sentences with Japanese …
Being on the outside
Wayne Shigeto Yokoyama November 13, 2003
It was interesting to be in a place where all these Japanese were because all …
Returning to Maui during baseball off-seasons to remind himself of the hard work required to succeed
Wally Kaname Yonamine December 16, 2003
After the season's over I'd be winning the batting title. I come to Honolulu, I …
His parents' experience with Japanese resistance toward intermarriage with Okinawans
Wally Kaname Yonamine December 16, 2003
My father was Okinawan and my mother Japanese, what they call Naichi. And those days, …
Working in cane fields as teenager, and how it helped in his athletic training (Japanese)
Wally Kaname Yonamine December 16, 2003
(Japanese) When I was in Maui, well, I was about 12 to 14 years old. …
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