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Toyota USA’s Christopher Yang, a Nisei Born in Southern California
Motivation to Study Japanese
The reason why Nisei children who were born in the U.S. go to Japanes…
Keiko Fukuda • Aug. 21, 2020
Artist Akira Yoshikawa Joins JC Giants at Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario - Part 1
“Throughout a lifetime, one comes across by chance or by arrangement a certain energy that …
Norm Masaji Ibuki • July 20, 2020
Kendo Koi and Junsaku Mizusawa: Japanese doctors in Veracruz and Oaxaca
In 1897, Japanese workers began to arrive in Mexico as part of the friendship agreement that was si…
Sergio Hernández Galindo • Nov. 2, 2018
From Sumo to Baseball, Japanese Americans in Yakima Valley Embraced Sports
WAPATO, Wash. —Growing up in Hawaii, Frank Iseri mastered the physically challenging responsi…
Tammy Ayer • Feb. 23, 2018
Steveston Community Society and the Nikkei Community
Steveston, at the southern end of the city of Richmond, had long been home to a large and active Ja…
Kelvin Higo • Jan. 19, 2018
Nisei: Sports Brought “Wa” (Harmony)
The famous Vancouver Asahi baseball teams have been well-documented and the latest, a movie made in…
Chuck Tasaka • Oct. 7, 2016
Yuriko & Carlos
Little Tokyo, 1941 As I walked toward Little Tokyo over the First Street Bridge from Boyle Hei…
Rubén “Funkahuatl” Guevara • Oct. 20, 2014
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boxing
Buddhism
California
Chicanos
combat
culture
dance
fiction
haiku
Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series)
judo
kendo
Latinos
literature
Little Tokyo
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple
martial arts
Mexican Americans
Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple (organization)
Obon
ondo dancing
poetry
religions
short stories
sports
United States
World War II
World War II camps