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How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how invested …
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The famous Vancouver Asahi baseball teams have been well-documented and the latest, a movie made in Japan called Asahi was the “icing on the cake”. …
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I had a chance to sit down and talk with filmmaker Tad Nakamura about his newest documentary Mele Murals and its L.A. Premiere, co-presented by …
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You’d think after a lifetime of growing and harvesting peaches, you’d get sick of eating them. But the Masumoto family still loves peaches and serves …
Fifteen years after its 2001 release, the award-winning documentary film Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray will be screened at the Japanese American National Museum …
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“There were no Japanese Americans left in Juneau at that time. It was a moment when this community came together in an act of quiet …
When Matthew Hashiguchi first began to record his grandmother’s story, he expected to produce one full-length documentary about Japanese Americans in the Midwest and Canada. …
The World War II exclusion and detention experience of Japanese Americans is now fairly widely familiar, at least in general terms, to many within the …
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“The general term strandees, as applied to American citizens of Japanese ancestry, refers to those persons who had gone to Japan and who for various …
Read Part 2 >> More than a job for the extras The 1975 production used crowds of Japanese American extras, many of whom had themselves …
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Episode 12 April 11 at 4 p.m. (HST) | 7 p.m. (PDT) Featured Nima: Kristen Nemoto Jay Guest Host: Shari Y. Tamashiro
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