Japanese media in the United States

No. 12 Sakura Radio, an internet radio station that reaches across the US

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Connecting the community Sakura Radio, which is broadcast online from New York, started in October 2017 and has gradually spread into Japanese communities across the U.S. over the years. What makes the radio unique is that it is run by Interesse, a human resources company that is in a different …

Kyoko Sugimoto Hicks, who came to the U.S. in 2014 and welcomed skateboarding exchange students from Japan

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Studying abroad in the US after raising children Kyoko Sugimoto Hicks first came to America at the age of 18. She currently lives near Los Angeles and welcomes and looks after skateboarding students from Japan. She recalls, "The reason I came to America for the first time was to visit …

Former journalist and current VP of the U.S.-Japan Council — Fred Katayama

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From Japanese society to white society Thirty years ago when I moved to Los Angeles, Tricia Toyota was a Japanese-American anchor who played a major role in local television news. I still remember the footage of her flying to the site to interview victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in …

Grammy-Nominated Musician Masa Takumi and His Move to the U.S. in 2018

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To the Most Prestigious of the Music Industry

Tsutomu and Misa Igarashi travel to the US to make their children surfers

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Migration gives children the gift of a place to be born Igarashi Kanoa is a top surfer who won a silver medal as a representative of Japan at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and has continued to make great strides in competitions around the world since then. Kanoa's younger brother, Keanu, …

Japanese media in the United States

11th Japanese TV Connecting Generations: "Japan Hollywood Network"

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The maximum number of viewers was 850,000. When I moved from Japan to Los Angeles 30 years ago, I developed a new habit: watching Japanese TV dramas broadcast locally on Sunday nights. Before coming to Los Angeles, I was busy at a publishing company, so I rarely watched TV dramas, …

Katherine Birkinshaw writes about her mother's experiences as a survivor of the atomic bombing

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Daughter's illness and mother's confession There is a novel called "Last Cherry Blossom." Set in Hiroshima during wartime, the main characters are an impressionable young girl named Yuriko, her kind-hearted father, and her aunt, who lives with her and from whom Yuriko feels a distance. The latter half of the …

Choices for Japanese People Living in America

Fumio Ouchi, an American citizen living in Japan

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Returning to Japan after 50 years in the US Fumio Ouchi, who moved to the United States at the age of 25, joined the chemical company DuPont after earning his doctorate at the University of Florida. He is an expert in materials engineering and taught at the University of Washington …

A record of my mother, born in Manchuria, who returned to Japan after the war

Part 3: Return to Manchuria

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Following in my grandfather's footsteps More than 40 years have passed since my mother and grandmother left Manchuria, and in 1988, 34 years ago, I put into action a plan I had been thinking about for a long time. It was to visit the former Manchuria with my mother, grandmother, …

A record of my mother, born in Manchuria, who returned to Japan after the war

Part 2: Postwar Repatriation

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End of the War and the Journey to Xinjing It was in May 1945 that Emiko's father, Susumu, went to the battlefield. "Because my father had poor eyesight, he was one of the last to be drafted, and he was also the lowest-ranked soldier. He was drafted locally in Manchuria, …