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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Year-ending
Amy Uyematsu, Tamiko Nimura, traci kato-kiriyama
As we survey the past year of lockdowns and quarantines that started here in the States by mid-March, 2020, we take stock of a wide spectrum of revelations and experiences over the last twelve months. From new personal practices and experiments in the arena of safer-at-home, to illness and loss, …
Writing We Hereby Refuse: 3 Things I Learned about Resistance
Tamiko Nimura
When I was a little kid in California in the early 1980s, it was cool to be a rebel, or a resister. On the sawdust-covered playground of my elementary school, we played out different scenes from the movie Star Wars. A popular scene reenactment was the trash compactor scene, when …
Kiku Hughes’ graphic novel Displacement addresses the intergenerational trauma of Japanese American incarceration through a story of time travel
Tamiko Nimura
Falling Into Public History: My Writing about Japanese American and African American Community Stories
Tamiko Nimura
The following essay is adapted from a talk that I gave to the City of Tacoma Historic Preservation, Tacoma Historical Society, and Historic Tacoma in November 2020. An edited video version is available here on YouTube.
Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Care Is Free: Behind the Scenes with Two Nikkei Sisters and 35 Care Packages
Tamiko Nimura
In October 2020, Tamiko and Teruko Nimura were asked to create a community engagement public art project for Tacoma Arts Month (a month celebrating arts and artists in Tacoma). They drew on their Japanese American heritage and created a batch of care packages which they distributed all over Tacoma, Tamiko’s …
A Conversation With Aya Hashiguchi Clark on the Past, Present, and Future of Japanese American Theater
Tamiko Nimura
Given COVID-19 circumstances, the state of live theater in America is changing radically in 2020–but it is also changing because of the social uprisings and racial reckonings. Veteran Tacoma producer, actress, and writer Aya Hashiguchi Clark has had much to say lately around these changes, and I wanted to find …
Persimmon and Frog: Reading a Kibei-Nisei Tacoma Artist's Journey
Tamiko Nimura
In 2014, I had visited Tacoma artist Fumiko Kimura in order to profile her for a retrospective exhibition at Tacoma Community College. Kimura’s story and artistic journey fascinated me. When I met her, she was a Kibei-Nisei artist in her 80s. Last year, she celebrated her 90th birthday. She is …
Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Learning From the Issei Grandfather I Never Met
Tamiko Nimura
“What you are feeling is grief,” says the article from Harvard Business Review. And yes, living in COVID-19 in Washington State, March 2020 feels like a kind of grief, even though I have grieved before. But the waking up to a profoundly altered reality each day, each wave a fresh …