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Beginnings: One Nisei’s Journey (1921–1944)

“A leading scholar in the ethnography of contemporary Japanese and Japanese American culture and …

Catherine Jo Ishino • April 2, 2025

anthropology brides California generations Nisei picture brides San Diego social sciences United States wives

Kayo Imamura, a San Diego-based family therapist who moved to the United States in 2004

I had no desire to go to America and my English was not good. Kayo Imamura, a family and marriag…

Keiko Fukuda • Dec. 4, 2024

California genealogy generations identity immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration postwar San Diego Shin-Issei United States World War II

Usagi Yojimbo: The Year of The Samurai Rabbit!

The adventure of a lifetime started nearly 40 years ago for Stan Sakai with the creation of his com…

Lois Kajiwara • Oct. 29, 2023

California comic books comic-cons comics conventions graphic novels Hawai'i manga San Diego San Diego Comic-Con Stan Sakai United States Usagi Yojimbo (comic)

Eugenia “Jeanie” Kashima, First Topaz Baby

She was the first baby born at the Topaz Concentration Camp in central Utah. The hospital was not c…

Edna Horiuchi • June 6, 2023

California concentration camps Eugenia “Jeanie” Kashima museums San Diego Topaz Collages (exhibition) Topaz concentration camp United States Utah Visions Museum of Textile Art World War II World War II camps

Coronado Japanese community, a Tea Garden, and a Movie Star

Before World War II, there were sixteen Japanese families (including children, about 100 individual…

Edna Horiuchi • Aug. 3, 2022

acting actors artists California Coranado Japanese Tea Garden Coronado entertainers San Diego Sesshū Hayakawa The Dragon Painter (film) United States

Seiko Iso moved to the United States in 1995 and runs a nursing home in San Diego.

Divorce in my late 30s was a turning point The news of the sale of Keiro, a nursing home in Los An…

Keiko Fukuda • March 4, 2022

assisted living facilities California housing Ohana Care Home (San Diego) San Diego Seiko Iso United States

Takeshi Morita: A Mexican Fisherman Imprisoned in U.S. concentration camps

The Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 triggered war between the two c…

Sergio Hernández Galindo +1 • Jan. 21, 2022

aquatic sports Baja California California Ensenada fishing generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Mexico migration naturalized citizen San Diego Takeshi Morita temporary detention centers United States World War II World War II camps

The Young Doctor

Young Dr. Kitano was feeling very happy. He had recently graduated from medical school - and his ne…

Bill Watanabe • May 14, 2021

California families physicians San Diego United States

Notable Japanese Americans

The 46th elementary school opening early next year in Chula Vista with a 47.5 million dollar budget…

Rio Imamura • June 28, 2016

agriculture astronauts California Chula Vista Crystal City internment camp Daniel K. Inouye Department of Justice camps Ellison S. Onizuka farmers farming Fukutaro Muraoka generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Kanae Nagasawa migration Saburo Muraoka San Diego Texas United States U.S. Senate World War II camps

Nikkei Chronicles #5—Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

Minato Gakuen and Me

We are excited to ride the train whenever a new route is opened, but often don’t consider the histo…

Teiko Kaneko • June 20, 2016

California Discover Nikkei education Japanese language schools languages language schools Minato Gakuen Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei-go (series) San Diego sports teachers teaching undokai United States

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