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For authors and cousins Janis Bridger and Lara Okihiro, family stories and history were shared in bits and pieces at their grandparents’ dining room table. …
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Read Part 2 >> TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to these silences …
Read Part 1 >> TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I’ve really felt so strongly that you …
In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in a wheelchair. An installation of golden yellow streamers is billowing …
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The North American Post Editor’s note: Tokita’s present-day recounting of Issei and Nisei life is rare today. It is possible largely because his mother arrived as …
Read Part 2 >> With Yone, Misaki Shimazu founded Haha No Kai (Mother’s Home) in 1913 to supervise and take care of children. The home …
During World War II, my Nisei mother and her family were sent from Honolulu to a concentration camp in Arkansas, and from there they were …
My Nisei mother was an attractive woman but she wasn’t materialistic. In fact, she was almost fervently anti-materialistic. She would spend money on stylish clothes …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “The Most Fearsome Weapons Throughout Myth and History” Check back …
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The resistance of nearly 300 young men who refused to be drafted into the U.S. military out of U.S. concentration camps has become a prominent …
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