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A Tribute to Salinas Valley’s Tenacious Issei
I first became aware of the reverential esteem in which the Issei generation was held within the Ja…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Nov. 17, 2024

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book reviews California generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Orange County photographs photography reviews Salinas Southern California sugar beets United States
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Anthology Pinpoints Japanese American Experience in the 1930s
In London, rail passengers are warned by the phrase “mind the gap” to take proper caution when cr…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Sept. 8, 2024

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1930s Eiichiro Azuma generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration prewar World War II
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An Extensive Analysis of Shin-Issei Lives
In 2010, I was privileged to provide a peer evaluation of the late Lane Hirabayashi to support a st…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 21, 2024

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book reviews generations immigrants immigration Intimate Strangers (book) Issei Japan migration postwar reviews Shin-Issei Tritia Toyota United States World War II
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Mānoa Honey & Mead: The Art of Beekeeping
Once upon a time in Japan, there was an art student from Osaka named Yuki Uzuhashi who was studyi…

Lois Kajiwara • June 21, 2024

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Kazuhiro Kawasaki ~ Professor Emeritus at Evergreen State College — Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Seeing things as they really are is the essence of art He continued to paint dil…

Keiko Miyako Schlegel • June 19, 2024

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artists arts generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Kazuhiro Kawasaki migration postwar Seattle Shin-Issei United States Washington World War II
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Kazuhiro Kawasaki ~ Professor Emeritus at Evergreen State College — Part 1
It has been 60 years since he crossed the ocean at the age of 22 to become a painter. Once a young …

Keiko Miyako Schlegel • June 18, 2024

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artists generations Honshu immigrants immigration Issei Japan Kazuhiro Kawasaki migration Miyagi Prefecture postwar Seattle Shin-Issei United States Washington World War II
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Ken Nakazawa Rediscovered
Part I—The Early Years
Prominent among the few Issei to be accepted in mainstream American culture in the years before Wor…

Greg Robinson • May 12, 2024

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biographies California Fukushima Prefecture generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan journalism Los Angeles migration Oregon plays Portland (Or.) prewar Tohoku United States University of Southern California
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A vision, a path
Opening roads What was a dream is today a reality. The footprints well left on the paths of life a…

Graciela Nakachi Morimoto • May 7, 2024

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communities generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Masao Nakachi migration Peru Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center Peruvian Japanese Polyclinic physicians Ryoichi Jinnai Recreational Center
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Ai Fujimoto moved to the United States in 2011 with the goal of "bringing miso to the everyday American dining table."
Passion for fermentation I met Ai Fujimoto, who runs a handmade miso business in downtown Los An…

Keiko Fukuda • April 29, 2024

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Ai Fujimoto business California downtown LA economics food generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese food Los Angeles management migration miso OMISO LLC postwar Shin-Issei United States World War II
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Who Was The First Japanese Immigrant to Canada?
Kisuke Mikuni—The First Documented Immigrant
When Sumio Ishidate wrote about early Victoria in 1909, he had claimed, “In the autumn of the 17t…

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 28, 2024

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