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From Wakayama to California and Back Again: Exploring Transpacific Connections through Art and Education

Nikkei history is not well-known in Japan today, says Kanae Aoki, curator of the Museum of Modern A…

Marjorie Hunt • April 16, 2025

archives artists arts generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese American National Museum (organization) Kansai Region (Japan) Kinki Region (Japan) libraries migration museums painters research Wakayama (city) Wakayama Prefecture

The Izumi Family Revisited: Living as Japanese Canadian Exiles in Postwar Japan

Chapter 5—Reestablishing Their Connection with Basil

Read Chapter 4 Why John and May Never Moved Back to Canada It remains a mystery why John and May …

Stan Kirk • March 2, 2025

Canada exiles families family histories genealogy Japan Japanese Canadians Kansai Region (Japan) Kinki Region (Japan) redress movement siblings Wakayama Prefecture

The Izumi Family Revisited: Living as Japanese Canadian Exiles in Postwar Japan

Chapter 3—The Sisters’ Childhood in Japan After Basil’s Return to Canada

Read Chapter 2 Basil’s Return to Canada Perhaps because he was several years older than the girls…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 16, 2025

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The Izumi Family Revisited: Living as Japanese Canadian Exiles in Postwar Japan

Chapter 2—Exile to Japan and Childhood in Shimosato, Wakayama

Read Chapter 1 Exile to Japan John and May were among those Japanese Canadians who made the diffi…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 9, 2025

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

Kinky, Ken-boh, Gacha-ba

The old cliche, “What’s in a name?” Names like “Mad Dog” and “Scarface” are obvious. African-Americ…

Chuck Tasaka • July 17, 2024

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Broken Promises: A Japanese-Canadian History Exhibit in Shiga, Japan—Part 2

Read Part 1 >> From November 1, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the Shiga Peace Museum in Higashiomi, S…

Masumi Izumi • March 13, 2024

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Finding my family: Omaye/Omae Family History—Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Sharing stories, photos, and gifts Junichi-sama brought us to a room he’d speciall…

Shey Dimon • Dec. 20, 2023

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Finding my family: Omaye/Omae Family History—Part 1

*The below is an update of Shey's family history, which was written in 2021. The email header rea…

Shey Dimon • Dec. 19, 2023

Australia family histories genealogy Japan migration reunions Wakayama (city) Wakayama Prefecture

On Nikkei

Vol. 36: Visiting the Immigration Museum in Wakayama City - On the way to Japan's coastline ⑤

Wakayama Prefecture is an "immigration prefecture" that has produced many immigrants, as seen in th…

Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 22, 2023

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On Nikkei

Part 35: American Village in Mihama, Wakayama - On the way to Japan's coastline ④

If you head towards the Kii Peninsula along the coastline from Ago Bay in Mie Prefecture, you will …

Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 8, 2023

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