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My first meal during my first visit to Brazil was in a conference center just an hour from Sã…

John Katagi • Feb. 4, 2009

Brazil languages São Paulo travel

An L.A. Sansei's Misadventures in South America

Ahh. Piranha

I am sitting in a dugout canoe with three rather large Nikkei Brazilian guys. We're fishing in the …

John Katagi • Dec. 18, 2008

aquatic sports Brazil fishes fishing languages Parana River rivers South America

Words at War: The Sensei of the US Navy Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado, 1942-1946

We have heard the meaning and effect of the vocabulary used by the majority aimed at the minority J…

David M. Hays • April 10, 2008

Colorado Enduring Communities (project) Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) languages language schools United States University of Colorado U.S. Navy World War II

Japan’s Imperial Rescript on Education: How important was it in the Japanese American Experience?

Despite its value in teaching the cultural virtues of Japan to the Nisei in pre-WW II America, the …

Ike Hatchimonji • Feb. 13, 2008

education Japanese language languages loyalty oaths loyalty questionnaire oaths rescripts World War II

Journal Entry # 27-3: "I'm Turning Japanese..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 2, 2008

cartoons comics culture generations humor identity Japanese language schools language schools Neal Yamamoto Yonsei

Journal Entry #33X: "Not Nationality, But..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Jan. 5, 2008

cartoons comics ethnicity generations group identity humor identity languages stereotypes Yonsei

JET Tales from Aomori

Oily Smile

“What’s that word in English again? You know, when you try and make excuses for somethi…

Allison Reed • Sept. 21, 2007

languages

My part-time job at a Japanese grocery store

I got my first real job when I was 16. I was a cashier at a family-owned Japanese grocery store in …

Victoria Kraus • April 21, 2007

California Enbun Market grocery stores identity languages Little Tokyo Los Angeles stores United States

Sticks and Stones

For the last year I have been working on a feature length screenplay that deals with Asian American…

Koji Steven Sakai • April 18, 2007

identity languages racism

Living in the "barrio"

I can get away with being Hispanic or Latina without even trying. In my neighborhood, known as the …

Victoria Kraus • Dec. 2, 2006

Boyle Heights California hapa identity languages Los Angeles racially mixed people United States

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