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Identity in the Music Industry with Musician & Two-Time Grammy Nominee Nick Lee

Introduction LA Native Nick Lee has amassed quite the resume during his time in the music industry…

Kyra Karatsu • Aug. 30, 2023

awards composers Grammy Awards music musicians Nick Lee producers songwriters trombonists

Canadian Nikkei Artist

Takeuchi's Shapes In Between Retrospective: 60 Years and Counting - Part 1

“Trying to figure out what it means to be Japanese Canadian is messy work. To sum it up: to me, b…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • July 23, 2023

artists awards Canada galleries Japanese Canadians Norman Takeuchi Order of Canada Ottawa Ottawa Art Gallery Shapes in Between (exhibition)

Celebrating a Century: Nisei War Veteran and Esteemed Journalist Frank Moritsugu Turns 100

TORONTO — There are not many centenarian journalists, and even fewer who continue to actively and…

Kelly Fleck • Feb. 9, 2023

armed forces awards British Columbia Canada Canadian Army Frank Moritsugu generations Japan Japanese Canadians journalism journalists newspapers Nisei Order of the Rising Sun retired military personnel The New Canadian (newspaper) veterans World War II camps Yard Creek road camp

Grammy-Nominated Musician Masa Takumi and His Move to the U.S. in 2018

To the Most Prestigious of the Music Industry On the list of nominees in the Global Music Album …

Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 20, 2023

awards California Grammy Awards Los Angeles Masa Takumi music musicians United States

Gifts from Jichan and Bachan

Gifts from Japan

Jichan and Bachan brought back many beautiful gifts from their trips to Japan. They ordered lovely,…

Susan Yamamura • Sept. 16, 2020

awards charity gifts Japan Japanese Americans medals Order of the Rising Sun

Power of Our Stories

Japanese Incarceration: Making a Difference One Person at a Time

My name is Marissa, and I'm a Girl Scout from South San Jose, California. I love the smell of coffe…

Marissa Shoji • Aug. 12, 2020

Angel Island (Calif.) Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation awards California Girl Scouts Girl Scouts Gold Award imprisonment incarceration United States World War II

Hiroshima 75 Years Later: An Interview With Survivor Setsuko Thurlow

At 13 years old, Setsuko Thurlow, the youngest of seven children, organized her school paper and li…

Kelly Fleck • Aug. 6, 2020

activism atomic bomb atomic bomb survivors awards Canada hibakusha Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (organization) Japan Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Prizes peace Setsuko Thurlow social action World War II

Go For Broke: Remembering My Own Japanese American War Hero

One dark night when I was living alone in my twenties, my mother phoned me at one a.m. to tell me t…

Susan Kiyo Ito • Dec. 18, 2015

442nd Regimental Combat Team armed forces awards Congressional Gold Medal Go for Broke (motto) movies retired military personnel United States Army veterans war World War II

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #2 Grads in 1802: "Last Can Be a Blast..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Sept. 5, 2015

awards cartoonists cartoons humor

The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

Inequality, Security, and Japanese People in South America - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> In addition to disparities, another concern in South America is public safety. This …

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Feb. 3, 2014

awards design economies Latin America safety

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