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6th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Promise Me You’ll Remember

5:00PM was when the phone call came, telling me you were gone. Engine failure they said. Explosion over the Pacific, just a few miles past …

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Dawn I Frazier’s Hidden Place to Relax her Soul: Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden in Pasadena

Every Thursday morning, Dawn Ishimaru Frazier (82) looks forward to driving down the street of Pasadena to Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden. Within five minutes, she …

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Canadian Nikkei’s Pilgrimage to J.A. Internment Camps - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> NEXT STOP: PORTLAND Our next stop was in Portland, Oregon to visit their magnificent Japanese Garden. When Nobuo Matsunaga, the former …

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Nisei: Immigration To Canada

Manzo Nagano is credited for being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to B.C. Japanese …

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Hansen–Takata Wedding: The Japanese Garden at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific

In July, at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific, a very special marriage took place in the bonsai garden. Dillon Takata, descendant of the founder …

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Tatsugoro Matsumoto and the Magic of Jacaranda Trees in Mexico

In 1912, the mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki, presented the United States with almost 3,000 cherry trees, which were then planted throughout the U.S. capital. …

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Living Artifacts: The Descanso Gardens Camellias and Japanese American History

At first glance, a botanical garden may seem an unlikely place to find hidden stories. But David R. Brown knows many interesting narratives behind green spaces. …

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Japanese American National Museum Magazine

A Trunk Full of Stories:  The Shogo Myaida Collection

In 1990, two years before the Japanese American National Museum opened to the public, curator Brian Niiya looked through a shabby old trunk in Albertson, …

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Revisiting Balboa Park Japanese Friendship Garden

I wish to dedicate this article to: Will Hippen, Jr., Clara Breed, Marge Wells, Mark Umemura, Ken Takada, Denny Ikeda, and George Woodworth. Recently, I had …

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Van Nuys Japanese Garden

It seemed like a step down. Back then, the Valley was a big oven with nothing in it, a great sea of nothing, an ocean …