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From Wakayama to California and Back Again: Exploring Transpacific Connections through Art and Education

Nikkei history is not well-known in Japan today, says Kanae Aoki, curator of the Museum of Modern A…

Marjorie Hunt • April 16, 2025

archives artists arts generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese American National Museum (organization) Kansai Region (Japan) Kinki Region (Japan) libraries migration museums painters research Wakayama (city) Wakayama Prefecture

In memory of Ameilia Morimoto

December 2022. When the year was about to end, we lost a great social scientist. Her name was Ame…

Giovanni Bonfiglio • March 15, 2023

Amelia Morimoto Peru research

On Nikkei

Part 21: Interview with Sachio Negawa, author of “The Oriental Town of Sao Paulo, a Town Built by Immigrants”

We spoke to Negawa Sachio, a special research fellow at the International Research Center for Japan…

Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 13, 2023

Brazil migration research Sachio Negawa

Tetsuya Hirahara continues to research Japanese radio broadcasts overseas

From Beijing Radio and Moscow Radio to radio broadcasts in Latin America The author recalls that m…

Keiko Fukuda • June 13, 2022

communication Japanese language Japanese language radio languages Nihon Jikan (book) prewar radio research sociology telecommunication Tetsuya Hirahara

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi was an innovator in the field of Asian American Studies, a historian and story…

Brian Niiya • Aug. 27, 2020

activism Asian American studies authors Densho imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Lane Ryo Hirabayashi Redress movement research social action World War II

A Summer at the Nikkei National Museum

I spent the summer of 2017 in the Fuji Room at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC)…

Kaitlin Findlay • April 12, 2019

archives artifacts Canada internships Japanese Canadians museums research

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga: The Godmother of the Redress Movement

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was the scholar-activist who dedicated herself to researching the wartime r…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 27, 2018

activism Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Asian Americans for Action (organization) Redress movement research scholars social action World War II camps

Canadian Nikkei Series

Landscapes of Injustice: A Project Aims to Recover What Really Happened to Japanese Canadian-Owned Property During the 1940s - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Norm Ibuki (NI): From your research, what was it like to be Japanese Canadian in th…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Dec. 27, 2016

British Columbia Canada education governments Japanese Canadians Jordan Ross-Stanger Landscapes of Injustice (project) properties research students University of Victoria World War II

The Story Dealer

Rubén Sugano loves talking to older people. Issei or nisei. Listen to their stories. Nurture yourse…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Sept. 20, 2016

families Fukushima Prefecture generations Japan migration music musical instruments musicians Okinawa Prefecture Peru research Rubén Sugano Sansei sanshin Tohoku

Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum

Gary Ono

Gary Ono’s sunny Little Tokyo apartment is a monument to the things he loves. Behind his dining …

The Rafu Shimpo • May 23, 2016

Benkyodo (confectionery store) British Columbia Burnaby California Calling Tokyo (film) Canada confectioneries families fortune cookies Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Japanese Americans Japantowns Little Tokyo Los Angeles Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre photographers photography research San Francisco United States volunteerism

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