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Japanese Style Christmas in Brazil

As the year drew to a close, my mother always said, “We Nikkei are so lucky! We get to enjoy both B…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Dec. 24, 2024

agriculture Assaí Brazil castles Christmas gardening gardens holidays Japanese Brazilians Japanese gardens Maringá New Year Paraná (Brazil) sister cities

The legacy of Toyo Takata, Who Captured the Voice of Japanese Canadians

The book Nikkei Legacy served as an important reminder to Canadians of the suffering that Japanese …

Jonathan van Harmelen • April 19, 2023

agriculture British Columbia Canada Esquimalt gardening gardens Horticulture Centre of the Pacific Japanese Canadians Japanese gardens Kensuke Takata Nikkei Legacy (book) Takata Japanese and Zen Garden Toyo Takata Vancouver Island Victoria (B.C.)

The day the “Japanese” park was inaugurated in Mexico City without Japanese

The minister responsible for the Japanese Legation in Mexico, Miura Yoshiaki, surely read in the ne…

Carlos Uscanga • Nov. 18, 2022

agriculture gardening gardens Japanese gardens Mexico Mexico City World War II

Illinois Japanese Unknown Heroes

Chapter 1 (Part 7): Japanese Garden Designers, Domestic Workers, and their “Japanophile” Employers—Japanese Gardener, Susumu Kobayashi, and Cook Junji George Matsumoto at Riverbank

Read Chapter 1 (Part 6) >> After Taro Otsuka left Riverbank, another Japanese gardener named Oscar…

Takako Day • July 17, 2022

agriculture cooks gardeners gardening gardens Illinois Japanese gardens Junji George Matsumoto Riverbank estate Susumu Kobayashi United States

Illinois Japanese Unknown Heroes

Chapter 1 (Part 6): Japanese Garden Designers, Domestic Workers, and their “Japanophile” Employers—Taro Otsuka from Chicago to New York City

Read Chapter 1 (Part 5) >> In 1921, Otsuka moved to 216 North Michigan Avenue1 following Maruyama’…

Takako Day • July 10, 2022

agriculture gardening gardens Taro Otsuka Ushinosuke Narahara

Illinois Japanese Unknown Heroes

Chapter 1 (Part 5): Japanese Garden Designers, Domestic Workers, and their “Japanophile” Employers—Taro Otsuka, Japanese Garden Designer

Read Chapter 1 (Part 4) >> Taro Otsuka was born in 1868 in Kochi, Japan and rumored to be an act…

Takako Day • July 3, 2022

agriculture Chicago gardening gardens Illinois Japanese gardens New York (state) stores Taro Otsuka Tomihei Maruyama Toyo & Company United States

Illinois Japanese Unknown Heroes

Chapter 1 (Part 4): Japanese Garden Designers, Domestic Workers, and their “Japanophile” Employers—“Honorary Japanese Consul” George Fabyan in Geneva, IL

Read Chapter 1 (Part 3) >> In the early 20th century, there was another “prominent capitalist”1 …

Takako Day • June 26, 2022

agriculture gardening gardens Geneva George Fabyan honorary consuls Illinois Japanese gardens Taro Otsuka United States

The Making of Hakone Gardens: An Entangled History of American Elites and Japanese Gardeners, 1915-1932

This is the story of Naoharu Aihara, Isabel Stine, and Hakone Gardens—a Japanese garden located in …

Eliane Schmid • March 3, 2022

agriculture California gardening gardens Hakone Estate and Gardens Hakone Gardens Isabel Stine Japanese gardens Naoharu Aihara Saratoga (Calif.) United States

The Story Behind the Garden at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre

TORONTO — When the construction concludes on a landscape project, the work only just begins. While …

Kelly Fleck • Jan. 4, 2022

agriculture Canada gardening gardens Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre landscape architecture landscape gardening Ontario Scott Fujita Toronto

Grandpa Cherry Blossom - Propagating Japan's Beauty in America - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Star Nursery Losses During and After Camp When the Uyematsus left for Manzanar, F.…

Mary Uyematsu Kao • Oct. 28, 2021

agriculture botanical gardens California camellias cherry blossoms Descanso Gardens flowers Francis Miyosaku Uyematsu gardening gardens goodwill La Cañada plants United States

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