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Totally Pawsome: Aiko Wan’s Dresses Showcase Her Passion for Dogs, Art, and MATH?!!

As one child Aiko Wan, 39, loved math. She remembahs in six grade she won one district math competi…

Lee A. Tonouchi • Oct. 1, 2024

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Renaissance Artist and “Mad Man” – The Life of Shugo Seno

The world of Japanese American visual artists is diverse. Most art historians focus on the notable …

Jonathan van Harmelen • April 12, 2022

artists design New York (N.Y.) Shugo Seno singing

Mits Kataoka, Communications Designer, New Media Visionary - Part 2: Lessons from Life

Read Part 1 >> The son of two Japanese immigrants who met and married in Los Angeles, Kataoka wa…

Jennifer Cool • July 23, 2019

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Mits Kataoka, Communications Designer, New Media Visionary - Part 1: A Pioneering Influence

Mitsuru “Mits” Kataoka, was an entrepreneurial visionary who fostered artistic explorations of elec…

Jennifer Cool • July 22, 2019

arts design media videography videos

Nikkei designers: between art and profession

Art can be understood in many ways. A form of expression, a view of the world, a spiritual inspirat…

Javier García Wong-Kit • March 21, 2018

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The Forgotten History of Japanese American designers' World War II internment - Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR's executive order - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Textile artist Kay Sekimachi and her mother and sister were taken by bus to Tanfora…

Alexandra Lange • Aug. 11, 2017

artists arts design George Nakashima Gyo Obata Hideo Sasaki Isamu Noguchi Kay Sekimachi Larry Shinoda Minoru Yamasaki Ray Komai Ruth Asawa S. Neil Fujita Tomoko Miho Willie Ito World War II

The Forgotten History of Japanese American designers' World War II internment - Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR's executive order - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> As the introductory text to “Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocatio…

Alexandra Lange • Aug. 10, 2017

artists arts design George Nakashima Gyo Obata Hideo Sasaki Isamu Noguchi Kay Sekimachi Larry Shinoda Minoru Yamasaki Ray Komai Ruth Asawa S. Neil Fujita Tomoko Miho Willie Ito World War II

The Forgotten History of Japanese American designers' World War II internment - Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR's executive order - Part 1

On January 18, 1963, architect Minoru Yamasaki appeared on the cover of TIME magazine, his disembod…

Alexandra Lange • Aug. 9, 2017

artists arts design George Nakashima Gyo Obata Hideo Sasaki Isamu Noguchi Kay Sekimachi Larry Shinoda Minoru Yamasaki Ray Komai Ruth Asawa S. Neil Fujita Tomoko Miho Willie Ito World War II

Carlos Chinen: An architect with stories to tell

His full name is Carlos Chinen Kanashiro. Made in Peru, by Nikkei parents, model 1956, architect by…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Oct. 2, 2015

architects Carlos Chinen design models (miniature objects) Peru

Canadian Nikkei Series

Hamilton Fashion Designer HITOKOO - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Can you describe your work as a designer? Are there particular aspects of your des…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 28, 2015

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