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Orchid Season in Mr. Ikeda’s Garden : The “Welcome” sign still han…

Amy Uyematsu • July 22, 2012

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Journal Entry #4 No One Likes: "Silence Has Its Advantages..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • July 21, 2012

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Book Review -- Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp by Priscilla Wegars

Imprisoned in Paradise is a magnificent microstudy of the World War II Japanese internment experien…

Arthur A. Hansen • July 20, 2012

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Nikkei and War: 30 Years After My Participation in the Malvinas War

Migration from Japan officially began more than 150 years ago, starting with Japanese arriving in H…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • July 19, 2012

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Nikkei Chronicles #1—ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

Our Lady Queen Of Pickles

My last assignment before quitting the Army was at Valley Forge Army Medical Center, in the Pennsyl…

Edward Moreno • July 19, 2012

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Manzanar: A Son's Journey - Part 1

Please understand…I didn’t want to go to see Manzanar. I NEEDED to go there. Over the…

Keith Uchima • July 18, 2012

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About My Father, Yoshitaro Amano – Memories from the eldest daughter, Hamako - Part 2 of 4

Part 1 >>Please, Come InLiving with her father, however, was seemingly no different than livi…

Yukikazu Nagashima • July 17, 2012

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Nikkei Chronicles #1—ITADAKIMASU! A Taste of Nikkei Culture

"Look'it" Food

Come on, admit it. There is one in every family. You know at least one. I’m one. You may be o…

Rachel Yamaguchi • July 17, 2012

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 4 of 10

Read Part 3 >> GLOBAL CULTURAL AFFINITIES AND ETHNIC HOMECOMINGS In addition to the…

Takeyuki Tsuda • July 16, 2012

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Asian American Literature Forum Response by Anna Kazumi Stahl - Part 3

Read part 2 >> Now, to return to the issue posed in this forum’s prompt: in my cas…

Anna K. Stahl • July 15, 2012

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