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Haruko (Mom), a football fan? Yes, a football fan. How so? Well, three of her youngest sons, Yuzo, Masao, and Goro all played Little League …
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In Eagles of Heart Mountain, football is all but pretext. The book, journalist Bradford Pearson’s debut, follows the high-school football team that formed at the …
Kaname “Wally” Yonamine could have had a pioneering career in the NFL as a running back with the San Francisco 49ers. But his destiny was …
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Kin Takahashi, a Japanese student at Maryville College in Eastern Tennessee at the turn of the 20th century, attracted nationwide attention for his achievements on campus. …
Watch a Chicago Bulls game and try to find Jeff Tanaka. On gameday he’ll be sitting courtside, but he’s not one of the myriad of …
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Over the weekend I was working at the Japanese American Bar Association Annual Fundraising Gala. A fantastic organization that supports lawyers and speaks about issues …
Over the past several years, I have been engaged in large-scale research on the remarkable and largely-unknown history of ethnic Japanese in Louisiana, especially in …
During the cooler months of fall in the Imperial Valley before the war, only one thing was as important, if not more important, than the …
During Issey Nakajima-Farran’s very first soccer game, he scored a goal. But there was one problem. He was eight, playing for his school team in …
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