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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
Japanese Kiwi
I descend from a long line of samurai families. I am the fifth of six children of my parents, Taeko…

Jacqueline Yoshioka-Braid • Oct. 7, 2021

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atomic bomb atomic bomb survivors citizenship hibakusha Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture identity Japan New Zealand
atomic bomb atomic bomb survivors citizenship hibakusha Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture identity Japan New Zealand
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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
Across Oceans
My parents met in Osaka when Mum was in her final year of school and Dad was a university student. …

Yuki Kawakami • Oct. 5, 2021

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Australia biculturalism identity Japan Japanese Australians Sydney
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Nikkei Community Internship: An Internship of a Lifetime
I vividly remember the night that I called my friend from my school’s Nikkei Student Union ab…

Laura Kato • Oct. 1, 2021

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California Japanese American Community Leadership Council communities Japanese American communities Japanese Americans Nikkei Community Internship
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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Japanese Canadian Art in the Time of Covid-19 - Part 8: British Columbia edition
Read Part 7 >> After rereading the responses from this chapter’s featured artists from…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Sept. 30, 2021

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arts British Columbia Canada COVID-19 Japanese Canadian art Vancouver (B.C.)
arts British Columbia Canada COVID-19 Japanese Canadian art Vancouver (B.C.)
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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
An Unfortunate Break
They arrived in Peru on the same ship, the SS Hong Kong Maru. Four passengers among a small gr…

José Yoshida Sherikawa • Sept. 30, 2021

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Cañete Casa Blanca Japan Lima Peru Santa Barbara (Peru) World War II
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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
Interned and enlisted: My family history
Tomo, my grandfather My grandfather Tom (Tomo) was a joker, the self-confessed black sheep of the …

Shey Dimon • Sept. 29, 2021

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Australia families Japan World War II
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Japanese media in the United States
No. 4: Weekly Bayspo, first published in 1999 — A beloved weekly newspaper in the Bay Area
A pioneer of free SF media Recently, I often check out the Facebook community "Japanese in Am…

Keiko Fukuda • Sept. 27, 2021

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California communities Japanese language magazines magazines San Francisco United States
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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
In Conversation with Japanese-Australian artist Elysha Rei
Brisbane-based artist Elysha Rei’s bold paintings and intricate paper cuttings draw upon her …

Elysha Rei​ • Sept. 26, 2021

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Australia brides Brisbane heritage identity Japan New Zealand Queensland samurai Thailand war brides wives
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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
childhood memories
I am a Peruvian son of Japanese, a Nisei, born before the Second World War. I am part of a generati…

José Yoshida Sherikawa • Sept. 23, 2021

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Cañete generations Japanese language schools language schools Lima Nisei Peru tuberculosis
Cañete generations Japanese language schools language schools Lima Nisei Peru tuberculosis
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 39 (Part 1) What Japan Gave Me
After his beloved wife died of illness, Marco's father left his only son with his parents and w…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Sept. 20, 2021

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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