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Part 47: Japanese Emigration Overseas

There are 1,294,000 Japanese people residing overseas. In recent years, it is said that the number…

Ryusuke Kawai • June 28, 2024

human geography immigrants immigration Japanese Japanese diaspora migration Ryushutsu suru nihonjin (book)

An Inquiry into the Kibei-Nisei ‘Diasporic Experiences’

I feel a close kinship with this remarkable book by Michael R. Jin. In 2013, I was privileged to re…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 1, 2023

Arthur A. Hansen book reviews Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless (book) generations human geography Japanese Americans Japanese diaspora Kibei Michael R. Jin Nisei prewar reviews transnationalism World War II

Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30

Karen Tengan Okuda: Exploring and Expressing Her Uchinānchu / Okinawan Identity

As a second-generation Uchinānchu (Okinawan immigrant), Karen Tengan Okuda lives and works on the u…

Karen Kawaguchi • Oct. 17, 2022

Australia Australians generations human geography identity Japanese diaspora Karen Tengan Okuda languages magazines Nisei Okinawans Sydney Uchinanchu

Japanese migration to Salta, Argentina - Part 1

The migration was a massive migratory movement of Japanese to countries such as the United States, …

Sofía Desiré Garzón • Aug. 3, 2022

Argentina human geography Japanese diaspora migration Salta

History of the Okinawan Diaspora and the Silent Conquest

In 1968, the skeleton of a boy was discovered at the Yamashita-cho archaeological site, near Naha P…

Ilton Guenhiti Shinzato • April 14, 2021

Brazil human geography Japanese diaspora Okinawan diaspora Okinawans

Power of Our Stories

Michelle Kumata, A Japanese-American Artist with Brazilian Ancestral Roots

Seattle native Michelle Kumata’s artistic journey has taken her across the country to New York an…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • Nov. 23, 2020

artists arts human geography identity Japanese Americans Japanese Brazilian Diaspora Project Japanese Brazilians Japanese diaspora Michelle Kumata

An Interview with Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña

Renee Tajima-Peña is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and professor of Asian American Studies at Univer…

Carol Cheh • March 6, 2018

culture exhibitions filmmakers films human geography Japanese diaspora Renee Tajima-Peña Transpacific Borderlands (exhibition)

The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

Japanese People Around the World: From the End of the Edo Period to Today - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Some say that overseas migration, which began in earnest in the Meiji era, did not a…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Dec. 28, 2017

human geography Japanese diaspora

The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

"Japanese Americans" around the world - From the end of the Edo period to today - Part 1

Currently, there are approximately 3.5 million people of Japanese descent living overseas.1 Althoug…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Dec. 27, 2017

human geography Japanese diaspora migration

Japanese Diaspora - Cambodia

The Japanese traders who were the first to visit Cambodia were concentrated in Japanese quarters ar…

Masako Fukawa +1 • Nov. 6, 2014

Angkor Wat Asia Cambodia historic sites history human geography Japan Japanese diaspora migration Nikkei religion religious architecture religious institutions temples travel United States

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