Tamiko Nimura

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Tamiko Nimura es una escritora sansei/pinay, originaria del norte de California y que actualmente vive en el Noroeste del Pacífico. Sus escritos han aparecido o aparecerán en The San Francisco Chronicle, Kartika Review, The Seattle Star, Seattlest.com, The International Examiner (Seattle), y el Rafu Shimpo. Ella bloguea en Kikugirl.net, y está trabajando en un proyecto de libro que corresponde al manuscrito no publicado de su padre sobre su encarcelamiento en el campo Tule Lake durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Última actualización en Julio de 2012

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Growing Up Nikkei As An Adoptee—A Conversation with Author Susan Ito

Por Tamiko Nimura
13 Nov 2023

I “met” Susan Ito online close to a decade ago on a social media site, where we bonded over being Japanese American writers and bloggers. The online friendship deepened over time. I discovered that she even met my uncle Hiroshi Kashiwagi at a Tule Lake pilgrimage. And we finally met in person a couple of years ago over cookies and crafts, with a mutual friend. I’m so glad that Susan is telling her story with the 2023 publication of her memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere. The book is a powerful, poignant, and welcome addition to Japanese American literature: a story in part …

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One Fighting Irishman — A Conversation With Filmmaker Sharon Yamato

Por Tamiko Nimura
17 Oct 2023

Wayne Mortimer Collins is an important name for my family. I first learned about this heroic, brash and outspoken attorney nearly twenty years ago while editing my uncle Hiroshi Kashiwagi’s first book, Swimming in the American (2005). I was surprised to see the book dedicated to Collins, and learned a bit about him while reading about my uncle’s struggle to regain his American citizenship after renouncing it under intense pressure by the United States government. My admiration for Collins only deepened after hearing his son (Wayne Merrill Collins) speak at the 2014 Tule Lake Pilg…

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Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 3

Por Tamiko Nimura
10 Sep 2023

Read Part 2 >> TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to these silences that are created by the lack of having these these artifacts or heirlooms? RT: Yeah, probably that, and certainly my father had a lot of stories that he would share. And honestly some of them were really like “what?” I was probably too young to handle some of these but they left a very intense mark on me. So I think part of it is just trying to recover what the hell…it was his sense of heaviness and why the hell was he telling me this story, like “I didn&…

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Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 2

Por Tamiko Nimura
3 Sep 2023

Read Part 1 >> TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I’ve really felt so strongly that you [the writer/narrator] are the portal to this larger thing but at the very least you have to get your audience, in your space, in your doorway before they get to these larger things but the better you can get the portal prepared for your audience, the better the connection is, the better the relationship is. In another interview you talked a little bit about when you thought you realized you were making this film, and one point was when you were with you…

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Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 1

Por Tamiko Nimura
27 Ago 2023

In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in a wheelchair. An installation of golden yellow streamers is billowing around her, as she’s joined by children running and playing through the space. The woman is laughing in delight, as the streamers and the children are constantly changing the way she’s seeing the world—and how she’s seen. The elderly woman has dementia, and she is Tajiri’s mother. The film reframes two intensely creative processes—filmmaking and caretaking—and asks viewers to consider…