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

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 7, 2009

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Photographing the Nisei of Hawaii

A disappointing search for photographic portraits of Hawaii Issei at a university library led me to…

Brian Y. Sato • Feb. 6, 2009

An L.A. Sansei's Misadventures in South America

Say What?

My first meal during my first visit to Brazil was in a conference center just an hour from Sã…

John Katagi • Feb. 4, 2009

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Journal Entry # 3 with fried rice: "Precognitive Fun..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Feb. 1, 2009

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Exhibit Examines 'The Many Faces of Manga'

The National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS), in collaboration with the Nichi Bei Time…

Nichi Bei Times • Jan. 30, 2009

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Suupaa Gaijin Justin Baldwin

Justin Baldwin hands me a business card. He is endearingly tense as he begrudgingly mingles at a be…

Leah Nanako Winkler • Jan. 29, 2009

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Journal Entry # Infinity - 2 = ?: "More Deep Thoughts..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Jan. 25, 2009

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Records of a Japanese woman married to a Kibei-Nisei: Masako Kato of Montebello, California - Part 2 The switch from a wonderfully surreal new life to a path of bitter struggle

Read Part 1 >>A week after their meeting at Aiko Yamano’s home, Masako and Mitsuo Kato …

Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 23, 2009

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I called my grandmother "Oba-chan"

I called my grandmother "Oba-chan." It is the Japanese word for "grandmother." She was born somewhe…

Bobby Okinaka • Jan. 23, 2009

Names & Inaugurations

Names have power. Names convey a message about who you are, where you come from, and has at times i…

Koji Steven Sakai • Jan. 20, 2009

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Journal Entry # Knife-1, Abelard-0:"Crazy little thing..."

Photographing the Nisei of Hawaii

Say What?

Journal Entry # 3 with fried rice: "Precognitive Fun..."

Exhibit Examines 'The Many Faces of Manga'

Suupaa Gaijin Justin Baldwin

Journal Entry # Infinity - 2 = ?: "More Deep Thoughts..."

Records of a Japanese woman married to a Kibei-Nisei: Masako Kato of Montebello, California - Part 2 The switch from a wonderfully surreal new life to a path of bitter struggle

I called my grandmother "Oba-chan"

Names & Inaugurations