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The 150th Anniversary of Wakamatsu Colony, the First Japanese American Settlement on the North American Frontier

It was 150 years ago that the first Japanese settlers arrived on the American mainland, establishing the first Japanese colony …

Junko Yoshida • March 18, 2019 - May 8, 2019

5th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s fifth-short story contest concluded with an Awards Reception held on the evening of Thursday, April …

Madeline Parga +2 • April 17, 2019 - May 1, 2019

Kibalamba in the Land of Samba! ~The 100-Year History of Brazilian Amami Immigration~

In 1918, the "Amami women" began to migrate en masse to Brazil from the Amami Islands, located between Kagoshima and …

Saori Kato • Feb. 4, 2019 - March 11, 2019

Wakako Yamauchi - Japanese American Soul

Wakako Yamauchi, who died in August 2018 at age 93, was a Nisei playwright whose most celebrated work, And the …

Ross M. Levine • Jan. 11, 2019 - Feb. 15, 2019

Hapa Music is Black and Brown

“Hapa Music is Black and Brown” is a blog series that looks at the racial politics of multicultural Japanese American …

Sonia C. Gomez • Jan. 29, 2019 - Jan. 29, 2019

The Life History of a Japanese Canadian Child Exile: Mikio Ibuki

This series is about the life history of Mikio Ibuki, a second generation Nikkei who was born in Vancouver. He …

Stan Kirk • Nov. 26, 2018 - Jan. 7, 2019

Japanese American Family History in Seattle

This series explores the family histories of Japanese Americans living in Seattle. Two Seattle University students, Minami Hasegawa and Sharon …

Minami Hasegawa • May 28, 2018 - Dec. 26, 2018

Special roundtable discussion: What should the fourth generation visa be like? - As a framework for developing human resources who will lead the future of Japan-Brazil exchange -

If the fourth-generation visa is a success and fifth and sixth generation Japanese are able to come to Japan to …

Masayuki Fukasawa • Sept. 17, 2018 - Nov. 26, 2018

Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage

Stories in the Nikkei Chronicles series have explored many of the ways that Nikkei express their unique culture, whether through …

Asociación Peruano Japonesa +35 • June 8, 2018 - Oct. 26, 2018

The Uwajimaya Story

Uwajimaya is a food supermarket based in Seattle, Washington, USA, and is known to everyone. It started as a small …

Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 8, 2017 - Oct. 12, 2018

The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations

In the summer months, many people take pilgrimages to the sites of where there were Japanese American concentration camps during …

Richard Hicks +3 • Sept. 3, 2018 - Sept. 25, 2018

Bayonets and bulldozers: Isahama immigrants whose beautiful fields were stolen by the U.S. military

On July 19, 1955, ten years after the end of the war, the land and even the houses in Isahama, …

Rikuto Yamagata • July 23, 2018 - Aug. 20, 2018

The Other Side of Honolulu: Being Welcomed by Hawaii's Japanese Community

I have always dreamed of going to Hawaii since I was in elementary school, and now I am working in …

Seiji Kawasaki • July 21, 2014 - Aug. 17, 2018

Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

LAPD bicycle cop Ellie Rush, first introduced in Murder on Bamboo Lane (Berkley, 2014), returns in this special serial for …

Naomi Hirahara • Sept. 4, 2017 - Aug. 4, 2018

A true story “Brides in America”

This series traces back the life stories of women in a wide range of generations from a Japanese woman who …

Keiko Fukuda • June 30, 2016 - June 18, 2018

Family Histories in Seattle’s Nikkei Community

This series explores family histories from Seattle’s Nikkei community. Two Seattle University students, Sharon Ideguchi and Minami Hasegawa, worked together …

Sharon Ideguchi • May 28, 2018 - June 15, 2018

A Japanese Canadian Child-Exile: The Life History of Basil Izumi

This series is the life history of Basil Tadashi Izumi, who was born into a Japanese Canadian Anglican family in …

Stan Kirk • April 24, 2018 - June 5, 2018

Japanese Community in the Amazon

This is a journal that talks about the Japanese community in the Amazon from the perspective of volunteers, from various …

Asako Sakamoto • June 3, 2015 - Feb. 1, 2018

In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon

In 1993, the Japanese American National Museum organized In This Great Land of Freedom: The Japanese Pioneers of Oregon, one …

Eiichiro Azuma • Oct. 23, 2017 - Dec. 11, 2017

Reading Japanese American Literature

We will read literary works that intersect between Japan and America, such as novels written by Japanese Americans, works that …

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 24, 2017 - Nov. 10, 2017

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