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By the Shore of Lake Michigan: A Writer's Tanka Poetry Translation Pays Tribute to Her Issei Grandparents — Part 2

Read Part 1 Heart Mountain, Revisited Nancy does not recall when she first heard the word “camp” …

Tai Bickhard • April 19, 2025

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By the Shore of Lake Michigan: A Writer's Tanka Poetry Translation Pays Tribute to Her Issei Grandparents — Part 1

Fifteen years ago, Nancy Matsumoto, an award-winning journalist and author, took on a new project. …

Tai Bickhard • April 18, 2025

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No. 45 Interview with Maeda Ippei, translator of Anshuu (Darkness) — Part 1

Juliet Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-American woman surv…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 23, 2024

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Part 31 (Part 2): Interview with Nakahiro Iwata, translator of "Setsuko's Secret"

Read the first part >> The journey to publishing in Japanese --How did the Japanese version come to…

Ryusuke Kawai • June 24, 2023

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Part 31 (first half): Interview with Nakahiro Iwata, translator of "Setsuko's Secret"

The recently published Japanese translation of "Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of…

Ryusuke Kawai • June 23, 2023

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Yukuo Uyehara – An Issei Academic in Wartime - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> The bombing of Pearl Harbor turned Professor Yukuo Uyehara’s life around, as it d…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 27, 2022

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Interview With Thomas Girst On New German Translation Of "No-No Boy"

Congratulations to author and cultural manager Thomas Girst for providing the literary and historic…

Frank Abe • July 12, 2019

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Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

Pictures and Poetry: Deepening the Connection to my Japanese Roots

Growing up Sansei in my part of California’s San Gabriel Valley meant you didn’t have to work very …

Nancy Matsumoto • Oct. 26, 2018

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Book review: New translation of "No-No Boy" by John Okada, translated by Ryusuke Kawai

Haruki Murakami, known as a translator as well as a novelist, believes that "translations have an e…

Yoko Yuhara • Feb. 17, 2017

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Exploring the world of "No No Boy"

No. 23: In Japan, debates have been ongoing since the 1970s

The novel "No-No Boy" is a work of American literature written in English by Japanese-American auth…

Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 13, 2017

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