Tamiko Nimura

@tnimura

Tamiko Nimura, PhD, is an award-winning Asian American (Sansei/Pinay) creative nonfiction writer, community journalist, and public historian. She writes from an interdisciplinary space at the intersection of her love of literature, grounding in American ethnic studies, inherited wisdom from teachers and community activists, and storytelling through history. Her work has appeared in a variety of outlets and exhibits including San Francisco Chronicle, Smithsonian Magazine, Off Assignment, Narratively, The Rumpus, and Seattle’s International Examiner. She has written regularly for Discover Nikkei since 2016. She is completing a memoir called A Place For What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake.

Updated October 2024

Stories from This Author

Why Ichiro’s Departure Makes This Nikkei Girl Sad

Aug. 2, 2012 • Tamiko Nimura

We arrived in Seattle at about the same time, and we’re the same age. We’ve both got family ties to Japan. When he arrived, he made just about as much as I did—that is, if you didn’t count the word “million” in his salary and “hundred” in mine. But none of this explains why Ichiro Suzuki’s sudden departure from the Mariners has hit me this hard. ***** When I arrived in Seattle in the late 1990s, I was scared, and …