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No. 61: John Manjiro's descendants speak out

An extraordinary life story and achievements While there are many immigrants and migrants who trav…

Ryusuke Kawai • April 25, 2025

California friendship international relations interpersonal relations Japan Kochi Prefecture Manjiro Nakahama Massachusetts migration Okinawa Prefecture Shikoku United States U.S.-Japan relations

Shiukichi Shigemi—Part II: The Arrival of "A Japanese Boy"

Read Part I As previously described, it was in 1889, while studying medicine at Yale University,…

Greg Robinson • March 31, 2025

authors biographies customs (social) Japan literature Meiji period, Japan, 1868-1912 memoirs migration Shikoku writers

Shiukichi Shigemi—Part I: The Birth of A Japanese Boy

Exploring the history of Japanese American literature is a task fraught with uncertainty, as so muc…

Greg Robinson • March 30, 2025

authors Japan literature Meiji period, Japan, 1868-1912 migration Shikoku writers Yale University

The Forgotten Nikkei

Chapter 1: Unforgettable People - Mr. Shimizu, who decided to emigrate to Brazil①

The Japanese person who made the most impression on me was Mr. Shimizu Hisashi. If I was able to …

Sachio Negawa • Dec. 31, 2024

Brazil Doshisha University Ehime Prefecture generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese Brazilians Kyoto (city) migration Shikoku universities

Kiyoko Terao, Early Shin-Issei

Kiyoko Terao interrupted her career as a Tokyo seamstress to come to Seattle, temporarily in 1959, …

David Yamaguchi • June 6, 2021

brides Ehime Prefecture generations Imabari immigrants immigration Issei Japan Kiyoko Terao migration postwar Seattle sewing Shikoku Shin-Issei United States war brides Washington wives World War II

My schooling in postwar Japan as a Sansei teenager

Along with my Issei father and ailing Nisei mother, I repatriated to war-torn Japan in 1946. We set…

Robert H. Kono • May 23, 2021

Ehime Prefecture generations Japan Japanese Americans Kibei Nisei postwar repatriation Sansei Shikoku World War II

The Uwajimaya Story

No. 10: Successful people from the same hometown as Roots

For Japanese people, if you want to trace your roots, the best thing to do is generally go to your …

Ryusuke Kawai • April 27, 2018

Ehime Prefecture families Fujimatsu Moriguchi Japan Moriguchi family Shikoku Takemitsu Kubota Uwajimaya (grocery store)

The Uwajimaya Story

No. 9: From the village of Dandanhata to the village of Dandanha

Yawatahama City is located in the western part of Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku, facing the Uwa Sea. If…

Ryusuke Kawai • April 13, 2018

Ehime Prefecture families Fujimatsu Moriguchi Japan Moriguchi family Shikoku Uwajimaya (grocery store) Yawatahama

The Uwajimaya Story

Part 8: Following in the footsteps of successful people

It is not clear why Fujimatsu Moriguchi, who founded Uwajimaya, went to America in the first place,…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 23, 2018

Ehime Prefecture families Japan Moriguchi family Shikoku Uwajimaya (grocery store)

The Uwajimaya Story

7th Japan, Ehime, Nishiuwa District

When Japan opened its doors to the world during the Meiji period, a flood of Japanese people began …

Ryusuke Kawai • March 9, 2018

Ehime Prefecture families illegal immigration immigrants immigration Japan migration Moriguchi family Shikoku

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