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Journal Entry #27-B: "Firsts"

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 15, 2007

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #15B: "I Y'am What I Y'am II"

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 9, 2007

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #15: "I Y'am What I Y'am..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Dec. 2, 2007

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #1: "The Facts"

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Nov. 24, 2007

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Nikkei Heritage

Nisei cartoonist Jack Matsuoka

Most Nisei will remember Jack Matsuoka’s drawings from the seventies published in Hokubei Mainichi,…

Ken Kaji • Nov. 17, 2007

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Beyond Ultraman

The opening night of the new museum exhibition called Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vi…

Mark Nagata • Nov. 14, 2007

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Ronin Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Amazing Usagi Yojimbo

"To make a living in any of the arts is difficult—whether it be acting, writing, painting, music, o…

Darryl Mori • Oct. 25, 2007

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Heart-less Mountain

They heard the muffled anger, the stifled sob, the hollow laughter...all the human sounds...echoing…

Sachi Kaneshiro • Sept. 12, 2007

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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow: A Granddaughter’s Tribute to Artist Hisako Hibi

As the granddaughter of prominent Japanese American painter Hisako Hibi, Amy Lee-Tai was exposed to…

Sigrid Hudson • July 20, 2007

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

Strength in Beauty: Ruth Asawa

"I can see glimpses of my childhood in my work. The seemingly endless patterns we made in the dust,…

Japanese American National Museum • May 24, 2007

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