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The JABA Legacy Project: Patricia Kinaga—Attorney, Activist, and Mother Who Has Given a Voice to Those Who Don’t Have One

On July 24, 2021, I had the privilege of interviewing Ms. Patricia Kinaga: an attorney, activist,…

Laura Kato • Sept. 14, 2021

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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 7

Read Part 6 >> These Covid times, emerging from our third lockdown in Ontario, as well as teaching…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • July 22, 2021

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan activism authors Canada COVID-19 Discover Nikkei editors filmmakers Japan Japanese Canadians Kizuna 2020 (series) Linda Ohama musicians Ron Korb social action storytelling Tohoku Region (Japan) writers Yusuke Tanaka

Artist Randall Okita Pieces Together Grandfather's Past in The Book of Distance

In artist Randall Okita’s new project, The Book of Distance, he introduces audiences to a great her…

Kelly Fleck • Dec. 20, 2020

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Canadian Nikkei Artist

On Being Yukiko: New Kids Book Explores Japanese Canadian Identity - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Lillian, who is Yukiko? In a nutshell, what is the story of Yukiko? Lillian: Jef…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Nov. 18, 2020

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Canadian Nikkei Artist

On Being Yukiko: New Kids Book Explores Japanese Canadian Identity - Part 1

In many ways, On Being Yukiko, a new graphic novel by Lillian Michiko Blakey (Newmarket, Ontario)…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Nov. 17, 2020

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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 4

Read Part 3 >> So, here we are entering fall 2020 and the second wave of Covid-19 is upon Canada….…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 28, 2020

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In the Shadow of the Pines - a new film by Anne Koizumi

unearthing the memories that shape us In the Shadow of the Pines, a new animated short documentary…

John Endo Greenaway • Aug. 25, 2020

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Visual Communications and 50 Years of Asian Pacific American Stories

“Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, we were subjected to stereotypical portraits or invisibil…

Darryl Mori • July 30, 2019

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Tad Nakamura, His Life and FSN 1972

Los Angeles’s Japanese American community has always been ‘home’ to filmmaker, Tad Nakamura. Growin…

Kayla Tanaka • July 26, 2019

Asian Americans At First Light (exhibition) At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America exhibitions filmmakers generations Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Japanese Americans Visual Communications (organization) Yonsei

About the web series NipoBrasileiros

When I found out that the web series NipoBrasileiros would be released on YouTube in April this ye…

Silvia Lumy Akioka • July 8, 2019

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