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Part 53: What is Asian America?

Start by knowing When the new coronavirus, which was first identified in Wuhan, China, also raged …

Ryusuke Kawai • Oct. 25, 2024

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

Excerpt from My Name is Not Viola

This story follows main character Hanae Tamura, circa late 1930s. After Washington Junior High, I …

Lawrence Matsuda • Oct. 6, 2024

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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

My Name is Karen Kawaguchi

Karen Kawaguchi defines and expresses who I am. Born in Tokyo in 1953 to a Japanese mom and a Nisei…

Karen Kawaguchi • Aug. 20, 2024

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Kariyushi Eisá Daiko—The Group Preserves and Disseminates Okinawa’s Cultural Legacy

Nisei on his father’s side and Sansei on his mother’s, Tadashi Gabriel Nishihira Katsuren, 31, trac…

Tatiana Maebuchi • March 26, 2024

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The Spaces In Between: Artist Elysha Rei's Intricate Hand-Cut Paper Art

While the sakura were in full bloom outside the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, inside, a differ…

Kelly Fleck • July 16, 2023

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Reflecting on the short film Whole and mixed Japanese identities

On Friday 18 November 2022, Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains and I held a film screening of the short fil…

Aoife Wilkinson • July 2, 2023

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Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

In Remembrance of the Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami: An Interview with The Hidden Japan’s Derek Yamashita—Part 2

Read Part 1 >> GOING BEYOND DEREK’S TOHOKU WORK Your work at The Hidden Japan has expanded to …

Japanese American National Museum • March 11, 2023

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Do children with Japanese parents get better math grades?

"Children with one parent of Japanese descent are one year ahead of their Iberian counterparts in …

Masayuki Fukasawa • Feb. 26, 2018

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #About 5% of the U.S.: "Really? Still?..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Oct. 24, 2015

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Nikkei View

Why Asian Americans hate hearing “Where are you from?”

This has been a good week for sometimes contentious but bracing conversations on Facebook. The late…

Gil Asakawa • April 11, 2014

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