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The Real Lives of Origami Figures

My mother taught me how to fold when I was a kid, and I've been folding ever since. Origami figures …

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura • May 7, 2014 - Dec. 14, 2016

The town where Nikkei lived

Terminal Island, the Southwest, and Venice. This series visits areas near Los Angeles that were once home to Japanese residents …

Keiko Fukuda • March 5, 2013 - June 26, 2013

The United States Vs. Takaichi Sakai

Koji Sakai writes about his grandfather's experiences during World War II. "I believe my Grandfather’s World War II experience is …

Koji Steven Sakai • Sept. 2, 2011 - Sept. 30, 2011

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 Vancouver Asahi: The Search for Hall of Fame Medalists' Families

The legendary Vancouver Asahi team was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003 and the British Columbia …

Yobun Shima • Oct. 25, 2018 - May 12, 2021

The War of Japanese Buddhists

We will introduce the wartime and postwar experiences of three Japanese Buddhists, taken from a series of articles published in …

Yukikazu Nagashima • Oct. 14, 2010 - Oct. 28, 2010

The year of a Brazilian across the world

My grandparents on my mother´s side left their homeland in Japan, Fukuoka, in search of a better life in Brazil. Like …

Silvia Lumy Akioka • May 12, 2009 - May 26, 2010

To and from Manzanar

This is a column series by Takamichi Go, who studied in the United States in 2002 and became interested in …

Takamichi "Taka" Go • April 9, 2008 - April 28, 2011

Tokita Tales

This series shares personal, touching stories of Shokichi “Shox” Tokita’s family, which includes their incarceration in Minidoka concentration camp, his …

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • Nov. 10, 2021 - Jan. 19, 2024

Tracing the roots of the younger generation of Japanese-Americans and their activism

Japanese immigration, which began in the late 19th century, has a long history, and we are beginning to hear of …

Fumika Iwasaki • Dec. 16, 2015 - March 8, 2016

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

Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto

This series delves into Wakaji Matsumoto’s life as a farmer turned photographer in Los Angeles and Hiroshima before World War …

Karen Matsumoto +1 • Sept. 19, 2022 - Oct. 3, 2022

Voices of Chicago

The articles in this series were originally published in Voices of Chicago, the online journal of the Chicago Japanese American …

Chicago Japanese American Historical Society +23 • Sept. 1, 2005 - Aug. 1, 2012

Voices of the Volunteers: The Building Blocks of the Japanese American National Museum

This series introduces the experiences of the volunteers at the Japanese American National Museum from the book Voices of the …

The Rafu Shimpo • Nov. 2, 2015 - June 27, 2016

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

West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care

Nikkei eldercare was the right choice for my Japanese-speaking Issei grandmother, but will it be the choice my Nisei mother …

Nancy Matsumoto • March 25, 2010 - April 8, 2011

What Pearl Harbor Wrought

What Pearl Harbor Wrought is an episodic novel written by Akio Konoshima, an Issei who was interned at Heart Mountain …

Akio Konoshima • Aug. 30, 2010 - Nov. 16, 2010

Yoemon Shinmasu – My Grandfather’s Life in Seattle

This is a series on the life of Yoemon Shinmasu, an Issei immigrant from a small fishing village in Yamaguchi …

Ikuo Shinmasu • June 26, 2019 - May 27, 2020

Yonsei Study Abroad

Nathan Kenji Kasai is a fourth generation Japanese American foreign exchange student at Ristumeikan University in Kyoto. He is studying …

Nathan Kenji Kasai • May 9, 2011 - Aug. 26, 2011

Young Japanese people's views of Japan and the world

A personal account from young Japanese-American Akira Uchimura. He talks about the world from various perspectives, including his experiences studying …

Akira Uchimura • March 4, 2008 - May 13, 2008

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