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History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 3: Postwar Community Revitalization and Redress Movement
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As a historian, Izumi says that the ongoing use of euphemistic language to descri…
Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 18, 2023
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History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 2: Japanese American vs Japanese Canadian Internment/Incarceration
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Izumi first learned about the Japanese American incarceration experience in 1984:
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Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 11, 2023
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History Lessons with Professor Masumi Izumi — Part 1: Family Background
I had the honour of interviewing History Professor Masumi Izumi earlier this year.
Dr. Izumi is …
Norm Masaji Ibuki • April 4, 2023
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A record of my mother, born in Manchuria, who returned to Japan after the war
Part 1: Life in Manchuria
"Maybe he was a Japanese orphan." When I was in high school, people called "Chinese orphans" came t…
Keiko Fukuda • Oct. 5, 2022
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Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30
Vini Taguchi: A Civil Engineer for Social Justice—Part 1
Vinicius “Vini” Taguchi personifies the cross cultural, interconnected reach of today’s Nikkei comm…
Esther Newman • July 27, 2022
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The deep relationship between postwar immigration and war in Brazil as seen through personal histories
Brazil, which currently boasts the world's largest Japanese community at 2 million, also began with…
Masayuki Fukasawa • July 26, 2021
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Nikkei View
“Escape from Manchuria” chronicles a forgotten chapter of WWII history
Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave an unprecedented radio address at noon 65 years ago today, on August…
Gil Asakawa • Aug. 16, 2011
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