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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

The Amazing Tashiro Family

This is the story of the Tashiro clan of Cincinnati, New England, North Carolina, and Seattle. Though oddly unheard of …

Greg Robinson • Oct. 13, 2023 - April 12, 2024

The Asian American Literary Review

The Asian American Literary Review is a space for writers who consider the designation “Asian American” a fruitful starting point …

Jeffrey Angles +12 • Feb. 7, 2010 - Aug. 12, 2012

The disappearance of dekasegi workers: the suffering of families living away from home in Brazil

This article is reprinted from Nikkei Shimbun ( www.nikkeyshimbun.com.br ), a Japanese-language newspaper published in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo State, …

Yasuhisa Ikeda • Feb. 26, 2009 - April 7, 2009

The father of Kagawa Prefecture's overseas immigrants: Shinichi Imayuki's passion and achievements

Known as the father of overseas immigration in Kagawa Prefecture, Shinichi Imayuki was a teacher at Kagawa Prefectural Agricultural and …

Alberto J. Matsumoto • May 24, 2021 - June 7, 2021

The JABA Legacy Project: Legal Legends in the Nikkei Community

The Japanese American Bar Association (JABA) Legacy Project compiles profiles of legal legends and leaders in the Japanese American community …

Sean Hamamoto • July 29, 2013 - Aug. 5, 2013

The JABA Legacy Project: Pioneering Jurists in the Nikkei Community

The Japanese American Bar Association (JABA) Legacy Project aims to create profiles of prominent jurists in the Japanese American community …

Lawrence Lan • July 24, 2012 - Aug. 7, 2012

The JABA Legacy Project: Two Generations of Pioneering Judges in the Nikkei Community

Entering into its third year, JABA’s Legacy Project seeks to preserve the histories of prominent Japanese American jurists in the …

Sakura Kato • July 29, 2014 - Aug. 6, 2014

The Japantown in Brazil

The Bairro Oriental (Oriental neighboorhood) of São Paulo - living within the chaos of its walls, the same question crossed …

Sachio Negawa • March 16, 2007 - July 24, 2008

The Legacy of Isamu Tashiro: Nisei from Hawaii in Chicago

During the 1910’s, many Hawai‘i Nisei relocated to Chicago to start new lives and looked forward to bright futures. One …

Takako Day • Dec. 10, 2023 - Jan. 14, 2024

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

The man who collected the records of the first generation: Following in the footsteps of Shinichi Kato

Around 1960, Kato Shinichi drove around the US, visiting the footsteps of the first generation of Japanese immigrants and compiling …

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 13, 2020 - Jan. 28, 2022

The Multiple Identities of the Nikkei Community

A series of articles from panelists at a Discover Nikkei Symposium—“100 Years of Japanese Immigration: The Multiple Identities of the …

Andréia Ferreira +5 • Sept. 19, 2008 - Dec. 3, 2008

The new generation connects the world of Uchinanchu

Why are the bonds between Japanese people with roots in Okinawa so strong, and how do they pass on their …

Keiko Fukuda • April 25, 2013 - July 17, 2013

The Nihongo Papers

Award-winning author Naomi Hirahara presents a bioterrorism thriller that involves characters that span generations and continents, strawberries, and a mystery …

Naomi Hirahara • Sept. 14, 2007 - Aug. 8, 2008

The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

Lic. Alberto Matsumoto examines the many different aspects of the Nikkei in Japan, from migration politics regarding the labor market …

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Dec. 14, 2007 - Feb. 14, 2022

The Nikkei phenomenon as a differential being

The writer and researcher Emi Kamatsu develops a philosophical and anthropological analysis of Nikkei being, thinking and acting. It begins …

Emi Kasamatsu • Feb. 20, 2008 - Sept. 1, 2009

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

The Power of Irei

A series of articles related to the Irei: The National Monument for the World War II Japanese American Incarceration, a three-part installation …

Sharon Yamato • Nov. 27, 2022 - Nov. 1, 2023

The Power of Place: James Hatsuaki Wakasa and the Persistence of Memory

Seventy-eight years ago, James Hatsuaki Wakasa was shot and killed while walking his dog in the Utah desert. In a …

Jeff Burton +1 • June 13, 2021 - July 11, 2021

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