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Gohan & Good Fortune—Adopting a New Year and New Traditions

Akemashita Omedetou. Xin Nian Kuai Le. Happy New Year & Auld Lang Syne. This is how we welcome the …

Jeri Okamoto Tanaka • Nov. 26, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

Diary of a Mad Hapa Judo Girl

Being a martial artist was not supposed to be a part of my life. The plan for me was to focus on sc…

Chanda Ishisaka • Nov. 13, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

Sammy's Shitkickers

I began to beat Sammy with his own leg braces, polished by mama to a new money shine, around the ti…

Sakae Manning • Nov. 8, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

What Tribe You From, Brother?

When my son Michael was in high school he was approached by a group of young Navajo men who asked h…

Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey • Nov. 6, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

Kokichi-san

I’ve loved reading since I was little and would find myself drawn to characters in each story. The …

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Nov. 4, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

Memory Says

Nearly every year my husband remembers that we got married on October the 24, 1998. We did not. Ste…

Roxzana Sudo • Oct. 31, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

Snapshots from a Nikkei/Filipina Album

“Your mother is Filipina?” my friend’s mom asks me. She’s Filipina, too. She shakes her head, and s…

Tamiko Nimura • Oct. 28, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

A Hapa Girl In Vietnam

I’m currently carrying out a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship in Northern Vietnam. When I sit …

Tani Mitsui Brown • Oct. 24, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

My Laborious, Glorious, and Ultimately Futile Self-Education

Most Nikkei have the luxury of being brought up with the tradition of our fatherland. To be taught …

Nicholas Braun • Oct. 22, 2013

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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race

My Japanese Jewish Girl Fears

As a Japanese-Jewish American girl, I have suffered. It’s not just that both of my tribes were plac…

Francesca Yukari Biller • Oct. 9, 2013

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