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Assemblage

Assemblage into motherhood…Spilling into questions of beauty…Deliverance…To Push Through…Traces of …

Mia Ayumi Malhotra • Aug. 22, 2024

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A Profound Silence

One of the most famous—if not the most famous—works in classical music is Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.…

Alden M. Hayashi • June 13, 2024

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Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 3

Read Part 2 >> TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to these s…

Tamiko Nimura • Sept. 10, 2023

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Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I’ve really fe…

Tamiko Nimura • Sept. 3, 2023

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Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 1

In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in a whee…

Tamiko Nimura • Aug. 27, 2023

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Tokita Tales

Mom Was Young Once, Too!

The North American Post Editor’s note: Tokita’s present-day recounting of Issei and Nisei life is r…

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • May 25, 2023

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Sansei Natsukashii

During World War II, my Nisei mother and her family were sent from Honolulu to a concentration camp…

Alden M. Hayashi • July 19, 2022

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

What Nobody Can Take Away

My Nisei mother was an attractive woman but she wasn’t materialistic. In fact, she was almost ferve…

Alden M. Hayashi • Sept. 10, 2021

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #1000 + Years of War: "Serious Ordnance..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Aug. 7, 2021

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Issei Mothers Played an Important—and Largely Forgotten—Role in the Japanese American Draft Resistance Movement

The resistance of nearly 300 young men who refused to be drafted into the U.S. military out of U.S.…

Nina Nobuko Wallace • May 9, 2021

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