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Harvesting History at an Orchard: Every Peach is a Story by Nikiko Masumoto

A perfectly ripe, locally grown peach is sweet, easily bruised and ephemeral. But to Nikiko Masumot…

Esther Newman • April 10, 2025

agriculture authors Berkeley books California Central Valley children's books David Mas Masumoto farmers farming food fruit interviews library materials peaches peach growers publications United States universities University of California, Berkeley

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

3-11 Remembered: A School Principal’s Story—Part 2

Read Part 1 The Tsunami struck Arahama at 15:55, 69 Minutes after the Earthquake. What did you se…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 12, 2025

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan Honshu interviews Japan Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Tohoku Region (Japan)

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

3-11 Remembered: A School Principal’s Story—Part 1

Even 14 years after 3-11, there are surreal images from that disaster that I can’t forget—countless…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 11, 2025

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan Honshu interviews Japan Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Tohoku Region (Japan)

A Nikkei Canadian Hero: Mary Kitagawa’s Story As Told By Karen Inouye

Despite major differences between Canada and the United States at the moment, historically there ar…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 9, 2025

activism biographies interviews Japanese Canadians Mary Kitagawa Redress movement social action

Gus Hokama: “The Past in a Song”

From the windows of his house, Gus Hokama can see the city of Posadas. The capital of Misiones Prov…

Fernando Krapp • Jan. 29, 2025

Argentina Discover Nikkei Fest (event) Discover Nikkei programs (event) Gus Hokama interviews music musicians Okinawa Okinawans Paraguay singer-songwriters Uchinanchu

Revisiting Summer of the Big Bachi Twenty Years Later

2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of Naomi Hirahara’s novel, Summer of the Big Bachi. This kic…

Lauren Rise Masuda • Dec. 30, 2024

authors fiction interviews Mas Arai (fictitious character) Mas Arai mystery series mystery fiction Naomi Hirahara novels Summer of the Big Bachi (book) writers

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“A Pebble on the Ground”: How It Helped Kirk Kurokawa Become Hawai‘i’s Premiere Portrait Artist

In fall 2023 da portrait of da late Senator Daniel Inouye wuz unveiled in Washington D.C. And who…

Lee A. Tonouchi • Dec. 9, 2024

artists Daniel K. Inouye graphic arts Hawai'i interviews Lee Tonouchi Maui painters painting portraits United States U.S. Senate

Celebrating June Kuramoto, Koto Virtuoso

On Saturday, October 19, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will hold an Arigato Event to…

Edna Horiuchi • Oct. 10, 2024

interviews June Kuramoto koto musical instruments musicians

Interview with the Venerable Jisen Oshiro: “Meditation is Returning Home, to the Origin”

The Venerable Jisen Oshiro, nun of the Sotoshu Zen school, is director of the Soto Zen Peru commu…

Natalia Yoza • July 14, 2024

Buddhism interviews Japanese Peruvians meditation religions zazen (meditation) Zen Zen Buddhism

Rising Above: Wataru Misaka’s Legacy On and Off the Basketball Court

Rising Above: The Wataru “Wat” Misaka Story, written by Hayley Diep and illustrated by Naomi Gidd…

Cristian Roman • June 25, 2024

basketball biographies books children's books desegregation Hayley Diep interviews library materials Naomi Giddings National Basketball Association publications Rising Above (book) segregation sports Wat Misaka writing

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