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What is Nikkei? I was born and raised in Kanagawa Prefecture, and when I think back, I first became…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 11, 2022

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Frank Abe’s Search for an Authentic History

After a successful media career, Frank Abe has produced acclaimed literary and film works on resi…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • Jan. 3, 2022

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Writing We Hereby Refuse: 3 Things I Learned about Resistance

When I was a little kid in California in the early 1980s, it was cool to be a rebel, or a resister.…

Tamiko Nimura • March 2, 2021

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“When my kids ask me what I was doing during the war, I can only say that I was a soldier,&rd…

Mikiko Amagai • Feb. 10, 2021

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What Happens When Everyone who Experienced an Event is Gone?

How do we mark an event in time? The Etruscans used the concept of saeculum, the period of time fro…

Wendy Hanamura • Oct. 24, 2019

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Interview With Thomas Girst On New German Translation Of "No-No Boy"

Congratulations to author and cultural manager Thomas Girst for providing the literary and historic…

Frank Abe • July 12, 2019

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Tule Lake Resisters: My E.O. 9066 Story

The World War II American concentration camp experience was the darkest time in Japanese American h…

Yukio Kawaratani • April 5, 2019

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No-No Boy Author John Okada, Rediscovered

I Must be Strong I know now for what war I was born. Every child is born to see some struggle, …

Kimiko Medlock • Jan. 21, 2019

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First Impressions: Early Reviews of John Okada’s No-No Boy

One intriguing window into the world of John Okada’s landmark 1957 novel No-No Boy is the s…

Greg Robinson • June 7, 2018

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Book review: New translation of "No-No Boy" by John Okada, translated by Ryusuke Kawai

Haruki Murakami, known as a translator as well as a novelist, believes that "translations have…

Yoko Yuhara • Feb. 17, 2017

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