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“Nikkei” means Japanese descendants born outside Japan. Once I taught a Japanese student at an International School and she told me I was different from …
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Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has been published by a range of publications, from The Washington Post to …
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In Japan, there are old traditions that go back hundreds of years, such as hanami1 in the spring, unagi2 in the summer, or buying a kumade3 …
My name is Filipe Fukutani, a fourth generation half Brazilian half Japanese born in Brazil. I grew up in a non-traditional household in the suburbs …
I was deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of the sculptor Kenzi Shiokava on June 18, 2021. I had the pleasure of interviewing …
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Strong feeling of responsibility to transmit the Nikkei legacy for the future Covid-19 has been spreading over the world and the measures that the government …
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Seattle native Michelle Kumata’s artistic journey has taken her across the country to New York and across the hemisphere to Brazil, not only to discover …
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From about 10 years ago, tattoo has been gaining another status in Brazil. Previously, the common peception was that only gangsters had them. Today, people …
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“No one can take away what you’ve studied” was or still is a sentence repeated to exhaustion to children by generations of parents of Japanese …
I met the designer and comic book artist Cristina Eiko Yamamoto, 37, at the launch of the graphic novel Penadinho – Vida [Penadinho – Life, …
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