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No. 45 Interview with Maeda Ippei, translator of Anshuu (Darkness) — Part 1

Ryusuke Kawai

Juliet Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-American woman surviving a life of hardship during and after the war. Ippei Maeda, a scholar of American literature, translated the novel over the course of 10 years and published it at the end of last year. We asked him about the …

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No. 44: Accepting all hardships—The world of the novel "Darkness"

Ryusuke Kawai

Unique "Japanese Literature" For second- and third-generation Japanese American or Canadian writers, the tragedies of Japanese people brought about by the Pacific War, such as the state's internment policy, have become major themes in their works, such as John Okada's No-No Boy, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Julie Otsuka's When the …

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No. 43 The Footsteps of a Third Generation Japanese American Fighting Through Art — Reading "Nobuko Miyamoto's Autobiography"

Ryusuke Kawai

Nobuko Miyamoto, a third-generation Japanese-American, has had what is commonly called a "life full of ups and downs." However, if "life full of ups and downs" means being buffeted by the turbulence of the times and encountering unexpected situations, then in Miyamoto's case, in addition to that, her life is …

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No. 42 Japanese Australians during the war - Reading "Records of the Internment of Japanese Australians"

Ryusuke Kawai

It is well known that with the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japanese and Japanese-Americans in the United States were forcibly isolated and placed in internment camps. It is also well known that a similar policy was implemented in Canada, although not to the same extent as the internment in …

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Part 41 (part 3) Interview with Christine Piper, author with Japanese and Australian roots — Family roots and identity

Ryusuke Kawai

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Part 41 (part 2) Interview with Christine Piper, author with Japanese and Australian roots — Japanese-Australian

Ryusuke Kawai

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Part 41 (Part 1) Interview with Christine Piper, an author of Japanese and Australian descent — The story behind the creation of her novel "After Dark"

Ryusuke Kawai

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Episode 40: The story of a Japanese doctor in Australia during wartime

Ryusuke Kawai

Detention Centers, Institutions for Disease Control, and Wavering Feelings It is well known that at the start of the Pacific War, Japanese and Japanese-Americans in the United States were deemed "enemy aliens" and isolated in internment camps, but what is less known is that similar internment camps also existed in …

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39th Racism: Structural Discrimination

Ryusuke Kawai

Read "Racism in America" Even today, discrimination and conflict over "race" continues to occur all over the world. In particular, in the United States, which has been called the "melting pot of races," incidents that appear to be discrimination and prejudice against black and Asian people occur repeatedly. For Japanese …

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No. 38 The Florida Emigrants made into a TV movie

Ryusuke Kawai

Kotaro Sudo in Miami Beach Writing a non-fiction book and receiving letters from readers with their thoughts and impressions is a great way to discover new things and is a joy. Two years ago, I received a letter through my publisher from a 91-year-old woman who said she had read …