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Part 58 Memoirs of an Italian girl in a Japanese internment camp — Dacia Maraini's "My Life"

Similarities with the internment of Japanese Americans Just as there were facilities in the United…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 14, 2025

Aichi Prefecture identity Italians Japan Nagoya World War II World War II camps

The Sword and the Typewriter: The Life and Times of Hydesaburo Ohashi

Chapter 1—From Tsushima to Boston

Among the many life stories of those who created links between Japan and America, some have been co…

Aaron Cohen • Feb. 17, 2025

Aichi Prefecture Boston generations Harvard University immigrants immigration Issei Japan Massachusetts Meiji period, Japan, 1868-1912 migration swords United States weapons

Canadian Nikkei Series

Dr. Jiro Takai's Journey of Becoming From the Soo to Nagoya University — Part 6

Read Part 5 >> As Dean of the School of Education at Nagoya University what are your responsibilit…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 22, 2023

Aichi Prefecture bicultural identity biculturalism California identity Japan Nagoya Nagoya University Santa Barbara (Calif.) United States

Canadian Nikkei Series

Dr. Jiro Takai's Journey of Becoming From the Soo to Nagoya University — Part 5

Read Part 4 >> I remember well when I first went to Japan in the '90s and how that changed how I r…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 15, 2023

Aichi Prefecture bicultural identity biculturalism California identity Japan Nagoya Nagoya University Santa Barbara (Calif.) United States

Canadian Nikkei Series

Dr. Jiro Takai's Journey of Becoming From the Soo to Nagoya University — Part 4

Read Part 3 >> 1982 Vincent Chin Murder in Detroit We both remember the murder of the Chinese Ame…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 8, 2023

Aichi Prefecture crime hate crimes Japan Nagoya Nagoya University Rodney King Vincent Chin

Canadian Nikkei Series

Dr. Jiro Takai's Journey of Becoming From the Soo to Nagoya University — Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Forging Asian Canadian Identity JT: Being someone who prides himself on having t…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 1, 2023

Aichi Prefecture Asian Canadians Canada Canadians First Nation indigenous peoples Japan Nagoya racial slurs slurs Windsor (Ontario, Canada) Windsor University

When our reality surpasses fiction: the “two” Caqui haciendas

With the agrarian reform (1969-1979), 9,065,772 haciendas and 15,826 farms in Peru were expropriate…

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato • Aug. 6, 2021

Aichi Prefecture graphic arts Huaral Inuyama Japan Little World Museum of Men murals Nikumatsu Okada painting Peru

Scott Tsumura, the legendary game creator who moved to the US in 1988

Initially, he plans to stay in the U.S. for one year. When I was looking for active seniors for a …

Keiko Fukuda • April 28, 2021

Aichi Prefecture citizenship games generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration Nagoya naturalization postwar Scott Tsumura Seattle Shin-Issei Spelunker (video game) United States video games Washington World War II

Japanese American baseball pioneer to be honored by Asian Hall of Fame

Kaname “Wally” Yonamine could have had a pioneering career in the NFL as a running back with the …

Jason Cruz • Dec. 2, 2020

Aichi Prefecture Asian Hall of Fame (organization) baseball Chunichi Dragons (baseball team) football generations halls of fame Hawai'i Japan museums Nagoya Nisei San Francisco 49ers (football team) Tokyo Giants United States Wally Yonamine

Tessaku

Rose Tsunekawa - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Now when you started, it was 1942 by this point and the war between the U.S. and Ja…

Emiko Tsuchida • Jan. 9, 2020

Aichi Prefecture California Cupertino Japan Nagoya Salinas United States

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