Discover Nikkei

https://www.discovernikkei.org/en/interviews/

Nakamura,Eric

Giant Robot, never a drag

Giant Robot co-founder and publisher

Nakagawa,Mako

Thoughts on relationship between Japanese Peruvians and Japanese Americans at Crystal City, Texas

(1937 - 2021) Teacher

Kobayashi,Bert A.

A body, mind and spirit work ethic

(b.1944) Founder of Kobayashi Group, LLC

Sakoguchi,Ben

His father’s American Dream

(b. 1938) Japanese American painter & printmaker

Yamano,Jane Aiko

Japanese are more accustomed to foreigners

(b.1964) California-born business woman in Japan. A successor of her late grandmother, who started a beauty business in Japan.

Narumi,Margaret

The Nomo Tornado in 1995 (Japanese)

Producer at NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.

Nishimura,Shunji

Delivering know-how to the next generation (Japanese)

(1911-2010) Founder of JACTO group

Emi,Frank

Apologies from the JACL

(1916-2010) draft resister, helped form the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee

Moromisato, Doris

Being a Nikkei today (Spanish)

(b. 1962) Peruvian Poet, Okinawan descendant

Houston,Jeanne Wakatsuki

Embarrassed to talk about camp

(b. 1934) Writer

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