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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?
Kinky, Ken-boh, Gacha-ba
The old cliche, “What’s in a name?” Names like “Mad Dog” and “Scarface” are obvious. African-Americ…
Chuck Tasaka • July 17, 2024
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On Nikkei
Part 35: American Village in Mihama, Wakayama - On the way to Japan's coastline ④
If you head towards the Kii Peninsula along the coastline from Ago Bay in Mie Prefecture, you will …
Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 8, 2023
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The Wakayama Canada-Japan Friendship Totem Pole Project
Factoring in Japan with Canada has always been a juggling act. For generations it has been a “S/he …
Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 30, 2021
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A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba
Part 3: Exile of the Matsuba Family to Japan
Tak was 19 when his family was exiled from Canada to Japan. There were various reasons why his pare…
Stan Kirk • March 23, 2020
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Journey Sparked By A Photograph
TORONTO — Stéphane Hamade, a fifth generation Japanese Canadian, spent seven days in the village of…
Kelly Fleck • Jan. 22, 2019
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Canadian Nikkei Series
Tak Matsuba’s Odyssey from Vancouver to Osaka - Part 1
“In the 1945-1946 school year, Miss Haruko Ito taught us grade 7, but she left us before the end …
Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 19, 2014
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Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
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Japanese Canadians
Lemon Creek
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Nisei
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Tak Matsuba
teachers
teaching
translators
U.S. Occupation Army
Vancouver (B.C.)
Wakayama (city)
Wakayama Prefecture
World War II camps
Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
British Columbia
Canada
concentration camps
education
generations
immigration
imprisonment
incarceration
Japan
Japanese Canadians
Lemon Creek
Mio
Nisei
Osaka
repatriation
reunions
Tak Matsuba
teachers
teaching
translators
U.S. Occupation Army
Vancouver (B.C.)
Wakayama (city)
Wakayama Prefecture
World War II camps
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