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Notes on Hoarding

Tamiko Nimura

My mom tells me that when my oldest Nisei auntie died in 2016, there were so many boxes in the shed next to her house. Fruit crates, to be exact. Corrugated white cardboard, insulated. Interlocking flaps on the top—enough to let the air circulate over and around the Bartlett pears, …

A Partial and Personal Timeline of Asian American Men on Stage and Screen

Tamiko Nimura

Teahouse of the August Moon (1979)

Barbed Wire, Guard Tower, Tar Paper Barracks, Roll Call

Tamiko Nimura


Manzanar, Diverted: An Appreciation

Tamiko Nimura

Manzanar, Diverted trailer

Love and Reckoning: A Meditation On Family Photos

Tamiko Nimura

In my childhood home in Roseville, California, we had a room we called “the den.” It was not the formal living room, where we had two couches, a fireplace, and a glass-topped coffee table. “The den” was a place for watching TV and listening to records from my dad’s impressive …

Writing on the Wall—Text for Resisters: A Legacy of Movement from the Japanese American Incarceration

Tamiko Nimura

It was a warm summer day in August 2022, but I could feel my feet and hands growing colder, a scratch in my throat developing. I was sitting at my youngest daughter’s desk while she was trying to sleep. My husband and oldest daughter had contracted COVID-19 and were isolating …

Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey Exhibit at Tanforan Detention Center Site

Tamiko Nimura

In 2018, five Sansei women artists traveled to Manzanar’s annual pilgrimage in order to honor their family histories of wartime incarceration. Each of them had worked with this history in some form in their wide-ranging art careers, but this journey was special. In order to chronicle their experiences, they created …

Karen Maeda Allman's Life in Punk Rock - Part 3

Tamiko Nimura

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Karen Maeda Allman's Life in Punk Rock - Part 2

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Karen Maeda Allman's Life in Punk Rock - Part 1

Tamiko Nimura

In the literary world, bookseller Karen Maeda Allman is widely known and respected for the bestselling authors she has brought to the Seattle area, for her advocacy for BIPOC authors, as well as for the literary prizes she has judged. I have known Karen personally for a few years now, …

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Tamiko Nimura is an Asian American writer living in Tacoma, Washington. Her training in literature and American ethnic studies (MA, PhD, University of Washington) prepared her to research, document, and tell the stories of people of color. She has been writing for Discover Nikkei since 2008.

Tamiko just published her first book, <em>Rosa Franklin: A Life in Health Care, Public Service, and Social Justice</em> (Washington State Legislature Oral History Program, 2020). Her second book is a co-written graphic novel, titled <em>We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration</em> (Chin Music Press/Wing Luke Asian Museum, forthcoming February 9, 2021). She is working on a memoir called <em>PILGRIMAGE</em>.

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