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Kazue Kitagakido, president of the Southern California Prefectural Association, who came to the United States in 1984 and is currently working on raising funds for her hometown, Noto.
There was no overseas option Just after the start of 2024, a big earthquake struck Japan. The affe…

Keiko Fukuda • April 3, 2024

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2024 Noto earthquake disaster relief emergency management Ishikawa Prefecture Japan Japanese Prefectural Association of Southern California Noto Peninsula
2024 Noto earthquake disaster relief emergency management Ishikawa Prefecture Japan Japanese Prefectural Association of Southern California Noto Peninsula
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100 minutes after the Great Kanto Earthquake: An example of the solidarity of Mexico and Latin America
On March 11, 2011, we all witnessed the triple disaster: human, material and nuclear that resulted …

Carlos Uscanga • Oct. 2, 2023

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Japan Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 Mexico
Japan Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 Mexico
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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
In Remembrance of the Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami: An Interview with The Hidden Japan’s Derek Yamashita—Part 2
Read Part 1 >>  GOING BEYOND DEREK’S TOHOKU WORK Your work at The Hidden Japan…

Japanese American National Museum • March 11, 2023

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan athletics California cultural identity Derek Yamashita generations group identity identity Japan JPquake2011 Olympic Games (1964, Tokyo, Japan) Olympics Southern California sports The Hidden Japan (firm) tourism United States Yonsei
2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan athletics California cultural identity Derek Yamashita generations group identity identity Japan JPquake2011 Olympic Games (1964, Tokyo, Japan) Olympics Southern California sports The Hidden Japan (firm) tourism United States Yonsei
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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
In Remembrance of the Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami: An Interview with The Hidden Japan’s Derek Yamashita — Part 1
Since 2011, March 11 has become a day of remembrance for the hundreds of thousands of Japanese li…

Japanese American National Museum • March 10, 2023

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan California Derek Yamashita disaster relief Doug Erber emergency management farms fundraising Honshu Irvine Japan Japan America Society of Southern California JPquake2011 Orange Coast Optimist Club Tanaka Farms The Hidden Japan (firm) Tohoku Region (Japan) United States Walk The Farm project Yamagata Prefecture
2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan California Derek Yamashita disaster relief Doug Erber emergency management farms fundraising Honshu Irvine Japan Japan America Society of Southern California JPquake2011 Orange Coast Optimist Club Tanaka Farms The Hidden Japan (firm) Tohoku Region (Japan) United States Walk The Farm project Yamagata Prefecture
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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Murmurs and Bones
We are honored to present three pieces here from South Dakota State Poet Laureate (2015-2019), Lee …

Lee Ann Roripaugh +1 • April 21, 2022

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Lee Ann Roripaugh literature poetry
Lee Ann Roripaugh literature poetry
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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
Remembering: The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 10 Years Later
This past Feb. 13th, there was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Fukushima. I froze. Cold sweat and a f…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 11, 2021

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan earthquakes Japan JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase) Tohoku Region (Japan)
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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
Tenth Anniversary of Japan’s Tsunami Disaster – A Visual Story of Animal Rescue
We are fast approaching the tenth anniversary of the horrific earthquake and tsunami disaster that …

Lexie Boezeman Cataldo • March 5, 2021

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan animal rescue earthquakes JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase)
2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan animal rescue earthquakes JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase)
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5th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Writing lessons for the 77th birthday
On that day in mid-January, three days before the seventh anniversary of her husband's death, B…

Akira Tsurukame • April 24, 2019

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan California death fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles Skype tea ceremony United States
2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan California death fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles Skype tea ceremony United States
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Semi-Immersion
ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Nov. 16, 2017, I had a date with my cousin, Diane, to see Kuniko Fukushim…

David Yamaguchi • Feb. 7, 2018

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan earthquakes identity Japan Japanese Americans jazz Kuniko Fukushima languages music musicians Seattle Tohoku Region (Japan) United States Washington
2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan earthquakes identity Japan Japanese Americans jazz Kuniko Fukushima languages music musicians Seattle Tohoku Region (Japan) United States Washington
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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
The Mexican Piñatas and Blankets Sent to Japan in Support of the Victims of the Great Earthquake of 2011
It was early in the morning of March 11, 2011, and Midori Suzuki was having trouble sleeping. That …

Sergio Hernández Galindo • March 10, 2017

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2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan artists earthquakes Honshu Japan JPquake2011 Kesennuma kizuna (phrase) Mexico Midori Suzuki Miyagi Prefecture Tohoku Region (Japan)
2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan artists earthquakes Honshu Japan JPquake2011 Kesennuma kizuna (phrase) Mexico Midori Suzuki Miyagi Prefecture Tohoku Region (Japan)
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