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@ryusukekawai
Japanese journalist and non-fiction writer. After reading John Okada's novel "No-No Boy," he became interested in Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans. He hopes that more Japanese Americans will come to Japan.
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No. 61: John Manjiro's descendants speak out
An extraordinary life story and achievements
While there are many immigrants and migrants who trav…
April 25, 2025
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Part 60: A story of fighting the enemy and discrimination—Reading "Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II"
It has been 80 years since the end of the war, and with almost no living witnesses to the war remai…
April 11, 2025
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Part 59 Getting to Know San Jose Japantown
A rare community that preserves Japanese traditions
San Jose, California, is known as one of the…
March 28, 2025
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Part 58 Memoirs of an Italian girl in a Japanese internment camp — Dacia Maraini's "My Life"
Similarities with the internment of Japanese Americans
Just as there were facilities in the United…
March 14, 2025
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Part 57 (2) Pursuing a world where cultures intersect
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Since her experience studying abroad in the United States in the 1970s, Away…
Feb. 28, 2025
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Part 57 (1) Pursuing a world where cultures intersect
Since her experience studying abroad in the United States in the 1970s, Nobuko Awaya has been con…
Feb. 14, 2025
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Part 56 Japanese in Kamchatka before the war
From the research of Michi Horie
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Japanese researchers stud…
Jan. 10, 2025
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Part 55 (2) An interview with Yumiko Murakami, one of the first to focus on Asian America
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Murakami Yumiko, a writer and researcher of ethnic culture, has been reporting on…
Dec. 27, 2024
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Part 55 (1) An interview with Yumiko Murakami, one of the first to focus on Asian America
Murakami Yumiko, a writer and researcher of ethnic culture, has been reporting on Japanese American…
Dec. 13, 2024
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Part 54 (2) The History of a Japanese Family in Florida
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From "The Story of Ichiro Omaye"
Last time , we introduced the history of the …
Nov. 22, 2024
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