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You know the Oshōgatsu is coming when many people schedule the Bōnenkai, at least here in Brazil. T…

Meiry Mayumi Onohara • Jan. 1, 2024

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How Do Nikkei Living in Japan Spend Their New Year?

In Japan, there are old traditions that go back hundreds of years, such as hanami1 in the spring, u…

Mike Omoto • Jan. 1, 2023

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Nikkei Chronicles #11—Itadakimasu 3! Nikkei Food, Family, and Community

New Year's aromas

My grandparents, Tatsuzo and Kinu Wakabayashi, natives of Hikone- shi and Shigaken , arrived in the…

Arturo Wakabayashi • Oct. 7, 2022

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Oshōgatsu in the Pandemic…Again

Nima-kai Traditions: Oshogatsu Foods 2022 After another long, trying year, Nikkei around the world…

Kimiko Medlock • Feb. 3, 2022

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Tropical Oshougatsu

Another year is starting! Usually, it is time to reflect on how the year went, on everything we've …

Antonio Kotaro Hayata • Jan. 5, 2022

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Seeing New Years with New Eyes

If Japanese Americans have a Norman Rockwell holiday, oshogatsu is it. Instead of someone serving …

Norio Umezu Hall • Jan. 1, 2022

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Zoom & Zoni: How the Nikkei Community Celebrated the New Year

To put it simply, Oshogatsu looked a little bit different this year. Maybe our kitchens lacked the…

Kyra Karatsu • Jan. 29, 2021

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Oshogatsu—Remembering Grandpa Sonny

When my Facebook friend suggested a submission for Discover Nikkei’s Oshogatsu photo activity…

Jane Shohara Matsumoto • Jan. 15, 2021

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1946: New Year’s at the Crystal City Concentration Camp

The end of the war between Japan and the United States in August 1945 did not bring peace and freed…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • Jan. 3, 2020

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Traditional Foods and Rituals to Start the New Year

These days, it’s easy to find Japanese or Nikkei food in Lima. Perhaps the day when Japanese …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Jan. 1, 2020

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