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Approximately 1,800 Japanese immigrants and their Peruvian descendants were deported from Peru to…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Feb. 11, 2021

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Two Veterans On A Mission

ARLETA — As Nikkei Senior Gardens prepares to mark its 10th anniversary, thoughts are turning…

Ellen Endo • March 5, 2019

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Nikkei Car Clubs

Don Mizota was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and as a toddler, he and his family spent the wartime ye…

Oliver Wang • March 12, 2018

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Melodee, Malcolm, and Me

I spent my childhood years during the 1950s in the San Fernando Valley. My parents, like a number o…

Bill Watanabe • March 31, 2015

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Saturday School

I thought it was very unfair of my parents to make me go to Saturday School to learn Japanese. All …

Bill Watanabe • Feb. 9, 2015

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Diamonds Separated by Oceans: Baseball, Japanese Americans, and Southern California's Pacific Rim - Part 2

Read part 1 >>As the Japanese and Japanese American population grew, generational differences…

Ryan Reft • Feb. 13, 2014

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Diamonds Separated by Oceans: Baseball, Japanese Americans, and Southern California's Pacific Rim - Part 1

“If California has made any contribution to sport on a national level, it is in the democrati…

Ryan Reft • Feb. 12, 2014

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生活排水の再利用から誕生した　サンフェルナンドバレーの日本庭園「水芳園」－今後の継続のために、ぜひ訪問を！

12月中旬、雨上がりの「水芳園」を訪れました。サンフェルナンドバレー、ヴァンナイズのティルマン下水再利用プラント内にある日本庭園です。訪問にあたり、前もって電話にてドーセント（ガイド）をお願いして…

Yumiko Hashimoto • Dec. 28, 2010

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ニッケイ・シニア・ガーデンズを訪ねて　－サンフェルナンドヴァレーに生まれた日系高齢者向け住宅で“敬老”精神を実践－

昨年１月下旬、サンフェルナンドヴァレーのアーレタ市に介護付き住宅施設「ニッケイ・シニア・ガーデンズ」が誕生した。その名の通り、日系アメリカ人の高齢者を主な対象とした施設だ。まだ木々の成長も初々しい「…

Yumiko Hashimoto • Aug. 27, 2010

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