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We Are Not Strangers—A Story of a Sephardic Jew and His Japanese American Neighbor
Pamela A. Okano • April 19, 2024
Hoping for a Rainbow
Curtiss Takada Rooks +1 • April 18, 2024
Episode 47 (Part 1) "I want to go home, but I can't"
Laura Honda-Hasegawa • April 18, 2024
In the Beginning There Was Cold Tofu
Sharon Yamato • April 17, 2024
“LA Rising” in Little Tokyo with Robert Vargas
Kristopher Kato • April 16, 2024
Manzo Nagano (Part 2) — Did He Come in 1877?
Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 15, 2024
Toshi Sato, the world's best Mercedes Benz salesman who moved to the US in 1996
Keiko Fukuda • April 15, 2024
Featured Stories
The Chuo Gakuen School: The Seeds of Prestige for the Japanese Community in Mexico
Sergio Hernández Galindo • June 3, 2016
Eriko Higa, born in Japan, raised in Bolivia, became a lawyer in the United States
Keiko Fukuda • April 24, 2023
Tad Nakamura’s Art and Activism
Helen Yoshida • April 25, 2023
Bisa AIKO and her 102nd birthday
Katsuo Higuchi • Feb. 17, 2023
The Child of a Thousand Generations
Chanda Ishisaka • Nov. 24, 2014
The secret to living to 100 years old in good health - Yoshiaki Umezaki, a walking dictionary of immigration history - Part 1
Masayuki Fukasawa • April 11, 2023
Series
My Name is Neal
Neal Yamamoto • Nov. 24, 2007 - April 27, 2024
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent.
Japanese Companies Active in Brazil Today
Tomoko Oura • Oct. 6, 2023 - April 12, 2024
Japanese companies in Brazil have continued to operate even amid the harsh conditions of the pandemic. As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to calm down and new values aimed at sustainability are required, this series will introduce the current status of …
The Amazing Tashiro Family
Greg Robinson • Oct. 13, 2023 - April 12, 2024
This is the story of the Tashiro clan of Cincinnati, New England, North Carolina and Seattle. Though oddly unheard of today, the Tashiros rank high in the category of diverse and accomplished Japanese American families, whose members distinguished themselves in …
Much Mahalos
Lee A. Tonouchi • Oct. 11, 2023 - March 29, 2024
In this series, acclaimed author "Da Pidgin Guerrilla" Lee A. Tonouchi uses the language of Hawai‘i Creole, a.k.a. Pidgin, to talk story with accomplished and up-and coming Japanese/Okinawan Americans from Hawai‘i. Interviewees discuss their passions, their triumphs, as well as their …
Excerpts from In Search of Hiroshi
Ana Iwataki +1 • March 3, 2024 - March 24, 2024
This series presents excerpts from Gene Oishi’s memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of his childhood wartime incarceration. In Search of Hiroshi was originally published in 1988 and has long …
On Nikkei
Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 11, 2022 - March 22, 2024
What is Nikkei? Ryusuke Kawai, a non-fiction writer who translated "No-No Boy," covers a variety of topics related to Nikkei, including people, history, books, movies, and music, focusing on his own involvement with Nikkei.
