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Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi: the narrative of origin

To write, you need very few things. Before, a pencil and paper. Now, a computer or smartphone. To b…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Jan. 13, 2025

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11th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Little Things

We sat, laughing, on a patio bench in the Japanese Village Plaza. On the way, we’d bought a box of …

Madeline Thach • June 17, 2024

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3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Home is Little Tokyo

Year: 2082 It was quite an unusual action for Takeo to venture out into the streets of Los Angele…

Yuriko Chavez • Aug. 23, 2017

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Cherry Blossom Petals

An elegant few, pale pink blossoms on the slender limbs of a delicate February Fuji Cherry tree, di…

Susan Yamamura • April 28, 2017

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3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

“MERRY CHRISTMAS, MARIO-SAN”

Little Tokyo, 1989 One night, Mario Martinez, a struggling musician from Boyle Heights, was sittin…

Rubén “Funkahuatl” Guevara • Oct. 3, 2016

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3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Kumiko with Hidden Worlds

He strolled leisurely through the Japanese Village Plaza, squinting slightly in the light of a five…

Sarena Kuhn • Sept. 19, 2016

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3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

The Last Master of Go

In the last edition of The Rafu Shimpo newspaper it was written, “Kazuki Tsukuyomi, the Last Master…

Joe Wocoski • Sept. 12, 2016

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2nd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Fish Market In Little Tokyo

The white noise of the ocean washed over the shore and reached for the cloudless sky. Wave after w…

Nathaniel J. Campbell • Oct. 12, 2015

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2nd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Kazuo Alone

Kazuo embraced Mondays like no other, and that was because of its silence. Mondays were sweet, a sw…

Linda Toch • Sept. 28, 2015

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2nd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Hotel Man

The area is designated as a historical preservation area, and old buildings cannot be demolished or…

Michie Wakabayashi • Sept. 21, 2015

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