@esnewman
Esther Newman moved from Encinitas CA to Hawaii in 2016. After a career in marketing and media production for Ohio’s Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, she completed an M.A. in twentieth century American history, concentrating on Latin American Japanese during WWII. Her interests include topics affecting the Japanese Diaspora: internment, migration, assimilation and preserving cultural identity.
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The Unknown Great: Expanding History, Widening the Focus
Until recently, the history of Japanese Americans was documented almost wholly by looking at the WW…
Feb. 12, 2024
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Power of Our Stories
In American Dream
There are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories. Historians, novelists, and artists o…
Nov. 27, 2023
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Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30
For Kyra Karatsu—Writing is a Foregone Conclusion
Where does talent come from? Is it inherited or learned? Nature or nurture? According to the BBC&rs…
Aug. 18, 2023
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Love in the Library—A story for children, a lesson for grown-ups
Maggie Tokuda-Hall is an award winning author of children’s and young adult (YA) books. Her…
June 23, 2023
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Defining Courage: A Tribute to Nisei WWII Heroes Comes To Hawaii
Defining Courage—produced by Story Boldly and the Emmy Award-winning team of Jeff MacIntyre a…
April 5, 2023
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Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30
Miye Sugino—Art as Advocacy: “To me, art is a reclamation of identity”
As one of JANM’s 30 Changemakers Under 30, Miye Sugino had amassed an impressive body of wo…
Jan. 2, 2023
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Power of Our Stories
The Power of Persistence: Tour Manzanar with Nell Yukiye Murphy
Nell Yukiye Murphy knows the importance of keeping a significant part of Japanese American histor…
Oct. 24, 2022
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Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30
Vini Taguchi, A Civil Engineer for Social Justice—Part 2
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Joining the JACL
The Kakehashi program was Vini’s first experie…
July 28, 2022
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Telling the Story to Understand the History
When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the United States entered WWII, thousands of…
April 26, 2022
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Enrique Higa
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