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Read Part 1 >> NEXT STOP: PORTLAND Our next stop was in Portland, Oregon to visit their magnificent Japanese Garden. When Nobuo Matsunaga, the former …
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At 93, legendary dance instructor Sahomi Tachibana remains at the center of Portland’s classical Japanese arts. PORTLAND — The years have understandably caught up with …
Read Part 1 >> Did you get the sense that for whatever reason, Minidoka’s security felt more relaxed than the other camps? In my diggings …
"The guard tower had a heavy duty machine gun. Of course no one was standing directly behind it but it looked in. Later as an …
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Once he was our friendThe owner of the store nowBehaves nervouslyRefusing to sell us goods Shizue Iwatsuki1 With the war coming to an end, Oregon …
The sun was already high in the morning sky when the train slowed to a stop at the Portland Assembly Center north of Oregon’s biggest …
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The migration over to Southeast Portland on the first day of the year is something that I will always remember. There were the times when …
Rear Part 2 >> Touring my own country, in another country I’ve said in previous articles that I don’t feel I belong in this country, …
When you opened the wood embellished glass door of Hiroshi’s Anzen grocery store, you could smell fish. Fermented fish, salted or dried fish products, and …
Kasuri. Boro. Shibori. These words might not mean much to you if you don’t think very much about textiles or Japanese arts and crafts. But …
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Episode 12 April 11 at 4 p.m. (HST) | 7 p.m. (PDT) Featured Nima: Kristen Nemoto Jay Guest Host: Shari Y. Tamashiro
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