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Juliana Kiyosen Nakayama and Japanese-Brazilian Identity

Juliana Kiyosen Nakayama holds a PhD in Language Studies (State University of Londrina), a master’s…

Ellen Sayuri Okido Matsumoto • Feb. 21, 2025

Brazil education Japanese Brazilians Japanese language schools language schools lawyers life interviews Londrina Nipo-Brazilian oral histories Paraná (Brazil) teachers teaching

Nikkei Paraguayan Identity Center: History, memory, identity and legacy

“We wanted any place in America to come and live. We heard very nice things about Paraguay,” says R…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 14, 2024

community centers Encarnación generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese Association of Encarnacion (organization) Japanese language schools Japanese Paraguayans language schools migration Nikkei Paraguayan Identity Center Paraguay

Japanese school where the students suffered repeated persecution during the war = Female students who listened to the Emperor's radio broadcast while crying - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>During the war, students were ordered to evacuate after their Japanese language docum…

Masayuki Fukasawa • Aug. 23, 2023

Brazil Japanese language schools language schools Michie Akama World War II

Japanese school suffered repeated persecution during the war = Female student in tears as she listened to the Emperor's radio broadcast - Part 1

100 people cried after hearing the Emperor's radio broadcast, and the windows fogged up. On August …

Masayuki Fukasawa • Aug. 22, 2023

Brazil Japanese language schools language schools Michie Akama World War II

Ginyu Igei: the teacher, the lighthouse

Ginyu Igei arrived in Peru with the halo of sensei. A teacher in his native Okinawa, the 26-year-o…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 18, 2023

agriculture education farmers generations Ginyu Igei Hawai'i immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese language schools language schools Lima migration Nanko Gakuen Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture Peru schools teachers teaching Uchinanchu United States

History of Seattle Nikkei Immigrants from The North American Times

Chapter 12 (Part 2): Nisei Education in Japanese Schools

Read Chapter 12 (Part 1) >> PROBLEMS OF TEXTBOOKS One of the North American Times1 articles (Feb.…

Ikuo Shinmasu • April 27, 2023

communities education Japanese language newspapers Japanese language schools language schools newspapers Seattle The North American Times (Seattle) (newspaper) United States Washington

History of Seattle Nikkei Immigrants from The North American Times

Chapter 12 (Part 1): Nisei Education in Japanese Schools

Many Nisei were born as a result of picture marriages, which I wrote about in the last chapter of t…

Ikuo Shinmasu • April 26, 2023

communities education Japanese language newspapers Japanese language schools language schools newspapers Seattle The North American Times (Seattle) (newspaper) United States Washington

Glimpses of Marpole—Part 1

The neighbourhood now known as Marpole is in southern Vancouver, on the unceded territory of the Co…

Raymond Nakamura • July 6, 2022

British Columbia Burnaby Canada communities Japanese Canadians language schools Marpole National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre (organization) Vancouver (B.C.)

Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

childhood memories

I am a Peruvian son of Japanese, a Nisei, born before the Second World War. I am part of a generati…

José Yoshida Sherikawa • Sept. 23, 2021

Cañete generations Japanese language schools language schools Lima Nisei Peru tuberculosis

Vancouver’s 106-year-old Japanese Language School now a Canadian Heritage Site - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> What is the state of the school today? What is the enrolment? What is the makeup of…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • June 9, 2020

British Columbia Canada Japanese Canadians Japanese language schools language schools Vancouver (B.C.)

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