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Barely coming from the mushroom of 1945, my maternal and paternal grandparents. Dreaming of new adv…

Tereza Yamashita • Nov. 15, 2023

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Finding the Right “Keiko” — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> When I arrived at The Plaza, I found Aunt Emiko watching a game show on…

Alden M. Hayashi • June 29, 2023

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Finding the Right “Keiko” — Part 1

Author’s note: After my mother had passed and my brothers and I were cleaning out her house, …

Alden M. Hayashi • June 28, 2023

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Facts and curiosities about Brazilian Nikkei names

Is your name compound? You can spell it? Do you only have a last name? These are some of the questi…

Tatiana Maebuchi • May 10, 2023

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Journal Entry #25-to-Life: "Miscellaneous Monikers..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • June 4, 2022

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My Story (Once Again)

I was orphaned in my 60’s. I do not have the luxury of that place Robert Frost describes: &ls…

yk miyazaki • May 17, 2021

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Nisei Nicknames

In this day of hi-tech computer with iPhone, iPad, Galaxy, and so forth, whatever happened to the o…

Chuck Tasaka • June 22, 2017

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Japanese American Name Culture - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Cultural Heritage and Assimilation The names that immigrant parents select f…

Tim Asamen • May 12, 2017

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Japanese American Name Culture - Part 1

Is it Eisenhauer or Eisenhower? Gonzalez or Gonzales? Yasuzo or Yasudo? Whether they are misspellin…

Tim Asamen • May 11, 2017

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Homeland

This month we feature Suma Yagi, an 89-year-old Nisei based in Seattle whose family was sent to Min…

Toshi Washizu +2 • Feb. 16, 2017

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