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Reclaiming the Flag: The Intersection of History, Memory, and Resistance in Na Omi Judy Shintani’s Art

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has acquired Pledge of Allegiance, a seminal artwork…

Masako Hashigami Shinn • April 9, 2025

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Sacramento Man Recounts Struggle to Become Internationally Recognized Sculpture Artist

Yoshio Taylor will tell you and he’s told his students that to be a sculpture artist takes a spec…

John Sammon • Nov. 6, 2022

artists California generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar Sacramento sculptures Shin-Issei United States World War II Yoshio Taylor

Leo Amino: Building a Brighter Art Through Plastics - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> In 1946, on the initiative of the famed artist Josef Albers, Leo Amino was invited …

Greg Robinson • March 25, 2022

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Leo Amino: Building a Brighter Art Through Plastics - Part 1

The modern sculptor Leo Amino, who achieved fame in the postwar artworld but then faded from view, …

Greg Robinson • March 24, 2022

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The Wakayama Canada-Japan Friendship Totem Pole Project

Factoring in Japan with Canada has always been a juggling act. For generations it has been a “S/he …

Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 30, 2021

arts Canada Japan Mio sculptures sister cities totem poles Wakayama (city) Wakayama Prefecture

Giotta Fuyo Tajiri — An Artist's Voyage

In June 2019, Discover Nikkei published an article of mine on the Nikkei community in the Netherl…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 10, 2019

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Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull: Baking Japanese Canadianness

Read the interview with Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull by Norm Ibuki >> After learning what the Japane…

Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull • Aug. 13, 2019

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The Way of the Busshi Bridging Past and Present, East and West

Making my first feature film when I was 18 drastically changed the course of my life. For better or…

Yujiro Seki • March 7, 2018

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Carlos Runcie Tanaka: a necessary return to the profession

Carlos Runcie Tanaka says that he prefers to mold clay to say the things that happen to him as a hu…

Carina Moreno +1 • Oct. 6, 2017

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Isamu Noguchi - Part 1

“I begin to see the peculiar tragedy of the Nisei as that of a generation of transition accepted …

Emiko Tsuchida • Sept. 13, 2017

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