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Nikkei Chronicles #8—Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations
Cynthia: A thousand cranes, a cherry blossom and the transience of life
Since I can remember, like everyone who was born in Peru in the nineties, Japan has been very prese…

Marco Carrasco Villanueva • Oct. 9, 2019

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cherry blossoms Discover Nikkei heroes loss Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Heroes (series) origami paper cranes Peru tsuru
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6th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Promise Me You’ll Remember
5:00PM was when the phone call came, telling me you were gone. Engine failure they said. Explosion …

Cody Uyeda • May 24, 2019

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agriculture California fiction gardening gardens Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Japanese gardens Little Tokyo Los Angeles loss United States
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Twenty Thousand Cranes And More: Stories Behind Washington State's Tsuru For Solidarity and Crystal City, Texas
Twenty thousand, and more. As I type, twenty-five thousand origami cranes are being gathered in …

Tamiko Nimura • April 23, 2019

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Crystal City internment camp Crystal City Pilgrimage (event) Department of Justice camps imprisonment incarceration interpersonal relations loss origami paper cranes pilgrimages separation Texas United States Washington World War II camps
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Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage
The Gift
My mother died on December 21, 1976. That Christmas was numbing. We already had the tree and gifts …

Grace Morizawa • Oct. 5, 2018

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cancer Christmas Discover Nikkei families loss mothers Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Roots (series)
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On “Family Separation” in 2018: One Sansei Atlas of Displacement and Mass Incarceration
As a Sansei, I've been exploring the issue of “family separation,” given the multiple ways that fam…

Tamiko Nimura • Aug. 21, 2018

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biographies California concentration camps families interpersonal relations loss memoirs separation Texas Tule Lake concentration camp United States Washington World War II World War II camps
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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Weaving
Happy summer, everyone! We’re excited to bring two more new voices to the Discover Nikkei platform …

A’misa Chiu +2 • June 21, 2018

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Discover Nikkei literature loss mothers Nikkei Uncovered (series) poetry poets weaving
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A Yonsei’s Reflections...
on Daruma, Dorama, and Hope
Daruma are popular Japanese symbols of perseverance. Often used as good luck charms to fulfill a sp…

Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda • Dec. 4, 2008

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aesthetics Daruma dolls dolls figurines folk art gaman (values) grief loss metaphysics psychology shikata ga nai (phrase) theory of knowledge toys values
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