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LONG BEACH — Eunice N. Sato, the first Asian American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, passed away of cardio-pulmonary arrest …
Although the saga of the Issei generation has been written by a number of historians, our understanding the views of Issei writers and thinkers on …
The Japanese American Committee for Democracy (JACD), a New York-based social and political group of the 1940s, has been effectively ignored in the history of …
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My recent Discover Nikkei article on Tsuyoshi Matsumoto has prompted interest from readers in other members of the Matsumoto family, such as Tsuyoshi’s sister Takako …
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Luckily for us growing up in New York City, there was very little discrimination. And my dad became friends with the top godfather of the …
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“I begin to see the peculiar tragedy of the Nisei as that of a generation of transition accepted neither by the Japanese nor by America. …
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Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were adopted into families that had no sons. …
We have only forty-eight hours to bring Hiroshima World to Manhattan. I take that back. Now forty-seven hours. We’re turning our apartment—well, our apartment for …
I saw my first homeless person in Japan when I was visiting Tokyo. Actually there were a whole group of them on the lower level …
It takes Gen some time to calm Tom down. After all, I, his enemy, have taken over his grill. It doesn’t matter whether you are …
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Episode 13 June 20 at 5 p.m. (PDT) | 8 p.m. (EDT) Featured Nima: Alden M. Hayashi Guest Host: Mia Barnett
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