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Yukio Is My Name

My name is Yukio Kawaratani. I am a Nisei born on May 30, 1931. Kawaratani is a very rare Japanese…

Yukio Kawaratani • Nov. 2, 2024

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Tokita Tales

Papa Was a Samurai Warrior!

What’s this about your papa being a samurai warrior? Your dad was a samurai? Whatever gave you that…

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • Nov. 7, 2023

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

In Conversation with Japanese-Australian artist Elysha Rei

Brisbane-based artist Elysha Rei’s bold paintings and intricate paper cuttings draw upon her Japane…

Elysha Rei • Sept. 26, 2021

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Nikkei and the Way of the Warrior: Samurai Heritage from Issei to Yonsei

During my college days I once wrote an essay on the three ideals that I thought best epitomized the…

Tim Asamen • Nov. 11, 2016

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Samurai Armor in the Imperial Valley Pioneers Museum

Were there samurai in the Imperial Valley? The answer is yes, but that’s not why a suit of samurai …

Tim Asamen • Oct. 12, 2016

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Samurai Spirit In WWII Camps

As a volunteer at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), recent developments there revealed …

Gary T. Ono • Aug. 20, 2015

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Why Orange County's Japanese community built a church in Wintersburg

The century-old document below is held in the archive of the present-day Wintersburg Presbyterian C…

Mary Adams Urashima • Jan. 21, 2013

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Shig Murao: A Samurai Family (1920)

Shigekata Murao is pacing around his room in the most expensive inn in Chiran, the town where he gr…

Richard Reynolds • Nov. 10, 2011

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From a Japanese American Literature Class at a German University

Cultural challenges and differences in Etsu Sugimoto´s "A Daughter of the Samurai"

To be honest from the very beginning: When I registered for our lecture on “Japanese Americans” I h…

Julia Schulte • Nov. 3, 2010

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When samurai walked the streets of New York

There is a curious gem of an exhibition on now at the Museum of the City of New York, Samurai in Ne…

Nancy Matsumoto • Aug. 24, 2010

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