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Life of One Pidgin Linguist: How Kent Sakoda became da Pidgin Yoda
Small kid time Kent Sakoda, 72 wuzn’t known as Kent “Yoda” Sakoda yet. He wuz just one Local Japa…
Lee A. Tonouchi • May 13, 2024
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Reading Japanese American Literature
13th "Wild Meat and Brie Burger"
Hawaii has the oldest history of Japanese immigration in the United States. The people who live the…
Ryusuke Kawai • Aug. 25, 2017
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Nisei: Immigration To Canada
Manzo Nagano is credited for being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not …
Chuck Tasaka • March 24, 2017
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The Japanese version of South American Creole "Colonia" and the insular feeling of the word "overseas" - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Even the spelling of the president's name is different Naturally, there are differen…
Masayuki Fukasawa • Jan. 5, 2017
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The Japanese version of South American Creole "Colonia" and the insular feeling of the word "overseas" - Part 1
It took me three months to get used to the Colonial language At the end of 1991, at the height of t…
Masayuki Fukasawa • Jan. 4, 2017
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Nikkei Chronicles #5—Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture
You-mo? Me mo!: Nisei Language and Dialect
I don’t have a PhD in linguistics but I hope that a budding linguist major will get interested in t…
Chuck Tasaka • June 7, 2016
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