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Richard “Sonny” Tanabe, the Hawaiian Water Man

As Nikkei, each of us has various topics that interest us. Thus, we have some who have studied abou…

Alberto Teramoto Ohara • Feb. 18, 2025

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The Amazing Tashiro Family

Part 8: Kiyo Tashiro—Physician and Athlete

This is the latest installment of my series on the remarkable Tashiro family. In my next columns,…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 28, 2024

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On Nikkei

Part 50: Athletes and Japanese-Americans

A difficult choice of nationality Regarding the Paris Olympics, the Japanese media has been report…

Ryusuke Kawai • Aug. 9, 2024

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Tsutomu and Misa Igarashi travel to the US to make their children surfers

Migration gives children the gift of a place to be born Igarashi Kanoa is a top surfer who won a si…

Keiko Fukuda • Feb. 8, 2023

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Olympic History and Achievements: Nikkei Athletes from the Americas

In Peru, Nikkei contributions to art and gastronomy are what usually attract the most attention, an…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • July 25, 2022

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Nikkei Chronicles #9—More Than a Game: Nikkei Sports

The world of Marcela Castillo Tokumori

2019 is the second best year of Marcela Castillo Tokumori's sports career. At the Pan American Gam…

Enrique Higa Sakuda +1 • July 2, 2020

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The Road to the Olympic Games

Never Give Up: Jessica Yamada By the end of July 2020, the world’s attention should be focused on …

Henrique Minatogawa • Dec. 6, 2019

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The Olympic Dream That a Group of Young Nisei Transformed into Reality in Tokyo

“We asked ourselves, how is this possible? There won’t be any Nisei at the Tokyo Olympics?” The sp…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • April 6, 2018

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Be a Good Sport About it: Early Nikkei Athletes in Louisiana

Over the past several years, I have been engaged in large-scale research on the remarkable and larg…

Greg Robinson • Sept. 5, 2017

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Author Greg Robinson: Dishing Out Nikkei-related Historical Figures in One Irresistible, Bonbon-sized Serving after Another - Part 1

The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches is the first-ever anthology volume of author Greg R…

Edward Yoshida • Feb. 17, 2017

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