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Editor’s Note: This series of articles is taken from a diary kept by Nikkei Canadian Alyssa Erin Woo, then ten years old, during her trip …
For the first six years of my life, I was convinced that the United States and Japan were literally on different planets. During fourteen-hour red-eye …
My visit to the town of Tupã brought me face-to-face with . . . wait, I’ll tell you in a second. While visiting friends there, …
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One really cannot speak of travel without including the subject of food. Travel and food go hand in hand. Name the destination, and images of …
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During one of my first visits to the city of Manaus in the early 1990s, I was hosted by a Japanese language school in an …
Kawashima sensei and I were at a conference outside of São Paulo at a retreat site called Tabor. We were having coffee with a number …
It had been about three years and I was really itching to get back to Japan this past summer. I figured that having taken all …
My first night in São Paulo, Brazil was like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Disneyland. Based on my first experience of riding in a car …
When you’re driving and you’ve lost your way, what do you do? A. Keep driving until you see something familiar. B. Consult the Thomas Guide. C. Pull into …
There must have been dryers somewhere in South America. Gas or electric, I would have taken either. During my eight years in Brazil, washday usually …
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