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Harvesting History at an Orchard: Every Peach is a Story by Nikiko Masumoto

A perfectly ripe, locally grown peach is sweet, easily bruised and ephemeral. But to Nikiko Masumot…

Esther Newman • April 10, 2025

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Scrumptiously Inventive Mochi In Fresno

I first learned about Fresno’s landmark mochi shop, Kogetsu-do, 16 years ago while doing research f…

Sharon Yamato • May 29, 2019

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Changing Season: A Father, A Daughter, A Family Farm

In the mid-1980s, while researching the World War II incarceration experience of Americans of Jap…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • May 3, 2017

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An Early Lesson in Timeless Values

NOTE FROM SUSAN YAMAMURA: This past week, I've been recounting my childhood memories of Minoru Tame…

David Sabey • April 14, 2017

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Paldi—The Town That History Plum Forgot

My mother, Ruth Abe (nee Toyota) was a young girl when her family was uprooted and sent to Popoff a…

Michael Kenji Abe • Oct. 17, 2016

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Peachy: Changing Season Captures the Passing of a Family Farm from One Generation to the Next

You’d think after a lifetime of growing and harvesting peaches, you’d get sick of eating them. But …

Gil Asakawa • May 18, 2016

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Rereading "The Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States" - Tracing the Records of the Pioneers

Part 31 (final) Japanese Americans in the Southern Coastal States

This series, which has been re-reading "The Centennial History of Japanese Americans," a compilatio…

Ryusuke Kawai • Oct. 30, 2015

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Rereading "The Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States" - Tracing the Records of the Pioneers

No. 21 Japanese Americans in Texas

"The Centennial History" devotes 36 pages to "Chapter 15: Texas." The Japanese introduced here are …

Ryusuke Kawai • May 22, 2015

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The bond between Ecuador and South America forged through hemp - Takuseki Furukawa - Part 2/3

Read Part 1 >> = Employees unite through soccer = Also on banknotes, cigarettes and tea bags ABAUDE…

Ikumi Akiyama • March 24, 2014

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #45 Minute Deadline: "Bananarama!..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • Nov. 9, 2013

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