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Read Part 1 >> Shimizu, who is 36 years old, said he enjoys working with older Deaf people around his parents’ or grandparents’ or godparents’ …
Shaun Shimizu lives in two worlds. In one world, he’s an American Sign Language interpreter, both personally and now professionally. Shimizu, who grew up as …
After my father died in 1948, my mom used the bus to go from place to place including taking her children when occasions demanded. Fortunately, …
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There’s a familiar adage that when Nisei get together, one of the first questions asked is “What camp were you in?” I suppose it’s almost …
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Read Part 2 >> TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to these silences …
Read Part 1 >> TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I’ve really felt so strongly that you …
In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in a wheelchair. An installation of golden yellow streamers is billowing …
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Where does talent come from? Is it inherited or learned? Nature or nurture? According to the BBC’s Science Focus, the answer is both. However, “some …
And what we see is our life moving like that along the dark edges of everything, headlights sweeping the blackness, believing in a thousand fragile …
Did you know there are mules on Izenajima (Izena Island)? Well, recently there were two roaming around there. My Leilehua High School friend, Valdeane Odachi, …
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