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Eating Together Again for the Holidays
It’s been a long, sometimes lonely three years since COVID-19 arrived in the world and change…
Gil Asakawa • Jan. 3, 2023
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Ohitori-sama Osechi Table
From Delta to Omicron. The year 2021, too, passed by like a flash in the midst of the Covid-19 pand…
Yusuke Tanaka • Feb. 10, 2022
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Winter Holiday, Nikkei Way
When the Canadian government finally gave the Japanese Canadians the freedom to have equal rights a…
Chuck Tasaka • Jan. 5, 2016
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The New Year’s Holidays Defined by Mother’s Homemade Osechi Dishes
In Japan, I grew up in a so-called “nuclear family”—a family that consisted of a …
Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 1, 2015
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Food for New Year
“I can do better than that with one hand tied behind my back,” my father complained, ch…
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey • July 3, 2012
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Top 5 Favorite Things About Japanese New Years
Besides Groundhog Day, my favorite holiday is New Years. I look forward to it every year. I always …
Koji Steven Sakai • Jan. 2, 2012
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Tradition: Osechi
Japanese Americans welcome the New Year with a special feast that can take weeks to prepare.In the …
Nancy Matsumoto • Dec. 27, 2011
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Happy New Year, Japanese-style
Unlike other Asian cultures, the Japanese don’t celebrate Lunar New Year. Instead, they celeb…
Gil Asakawa • Jan. 1, 2011
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New Year's Lore
It was the middle of the night, literally; I was sound asleep recovering from the hassles of the Ne…
Edward Moreno • Dec. 31, 2010
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