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A Japanese American Perspective on DEI and Citizenship

The new administration has made me contemplate how I fit into the new definitions being made and im…

Thomas M. Nishi • March 27, 2025

California diversity governments Japanese Americans politics United States universities

Nikkei Chronicles #9—More Than a Game: Nikkei Sports

Stranger Skater From Nowhere

October 31, 2020 Wow, lost the first draft… So going to write in one sitting. Technology and me……

Spencer Fujimoto • Nov. 10, 2020

Discover Nikkei diversity Hawai'i identity Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Sports (series) racism skateboarding sports United States

Kingi’s Kajukenbo: A multigenerational, multiracial family legacy in Inglewood, Calif.

This article is a follow-up to the writer’s original “Living in South Los Angeles — Today as a Japa…

Athena Mari Asklipiadis • Jan. 31, 2020

California diversity family histories genealogy Inglewood Kajukenbo Kinji Inomata martial arts Rick Kingi United States

Kyo Maclear’s New Childrens’ Book Tells The Story of a Nisei Trailblazer

Author Gyo Fujikawa‘s books have been read, shared and loved by generations of families all over th…

Kelly Fleck • Nov. 25, 2019

artists authors book reviews California diversity Gyo Fujikawa illustrators It Began with a Page (book) Kyo Maclear reviews Terminal Island United States

The JABA Legacy Project: Judge Holly J. Fujie—An Inspirational Woman Who Was Herself Inspired by Japanese American History and Community

Ambition, motivation, dedication, and determination are just a few words that describe a trailbla…

Kayla Tanaka • Aug. 6, 2019

communities diversity Holly J. Fujie Japanese Americans judges lawyers role models

Visual Communications and 50 Years of Asian Pacific American Stories

“Growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, we were subjected to stereotypical portraits or invisibil…

Darryl Mori • July 30, 2019

arts Asian American studies At First Light (exhibition) At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America diversity Duane Kubo Eddie Wong exhibitions filmmakers Japanese American National Museum media United States Visual Communications (organization)

The Other Side of Honolulu: Being Welcomed by Hawaii's Japanese Community

Final Episode: Traditional Culture and Diversity of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

This series of essays, in which I have written at a very slow pace about my own experiences with Ja…

Seiji Kawasaki • Aug. 17, 2018

diversity Hawai'i traditions United States

Interview with Music Educator Meghan Tokunaga-Scanlon - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Recently, I was lucky enough to travel to Estes Park to visit the beautiful mount…

Margaret Ozaki Graves • July 25, 2018

Allegiance (play) arts Colorado dance diversity education music performing arts teachers teaching theater United States

In two countries

Living in Liberdade, a neighborhood in São Paulo, is like living in two countries at the same time.…

Hudson Okada • May 29, 2017

Brazil communities diversity identity Japantowns Liberdade multiculturalism São Paulo

Nisei

A little over two years ago, at a cafe in Burbank, CA, I sat down with Richard Allen and Taran Gr…

Eliot John Hagen • May 19, 2017

442nd Regimental Combat Team acting actors artists California concentration camps diversity entertainers Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Nisei (TV) postwar resettlements San Francisco Tule Lake concentration camp TV shows United States United States Army World War II World War II camps

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