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Part 55 (2) An interview with Yumiko Murakami, one of the first to focus on Asian America

Read Part 55 (1) Murakami Yumiko, a writer and researcher of ethnic culture, has been reporting on…

Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 27, 2024

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Home Leaver: A Japanese American Search for Belonging

Chapter 2—Role Reversal

Yujin’s was the first familiar face I saw after arriving in Tokyo. Our reunion was on a street li…

Lon Kurashige • May 26, 2023

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“Dojin”, never again

Recently, a sansei was talking to me about problems he had at work when he suddenly used the word “…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Nov. 18, 2019

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Brazilian families in Japan - The (difficult) fight for integration

As a Nisei, I am proud of my origins and I highly value the principles and values I received from…

Katsuo Higuchi • July 10, 2017

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Building bridges with the Muslim community

Late last year, Erin and I were lucky enough to travel to New York City to see the Broadway musical…

Gil Asakawa • Feb. 17, 2016

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Japanese Canadian Internment in Relation to Syrian Refugee Crisis

On September 2, 2015, the world woke to the harsh image of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body w…

Samantha Sugiyama • Feb. 11, 2016

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Nikkei Chronicles #3—Nikkei Names: Taro, John, Juan, João?

Struggle for Identity

As I think about my name and what it has meant to me over the different stages of my life, I see th…

Roy Wesley • Aug. 14, 2014

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The JABA Legacy Project: Two Generations of Pioneering Judges in the Nikkei Community

Judge Fred J. Fujioka: Honoring our Past and Empowering our Future - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling Over the 17 years that he practiced as an attorney, both…

Sakura Kato • July 30, 2014

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

The Space Between

My best friend Brenda noted recently that we and our parents are a dying generation. We are the dau…

Linda Cooper • Sept. 27, 2013

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"Prejudices don't fall off like an old coat": more on Japanese-Americans relocated to Pittsburgh

In March we looked at length at the history of Japanese American forced relocation to Pittsburgh, w…

Brian Deutsch • July 2, 2013

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