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In the mid-1990s, I stayed in an apartment on the grounds of a church in Liberdade (the J-Town sect…

John Katagi • July 12, 2010

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Journal Entry #3 Steps Max: "Foldin' Frenzy..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • July 10, 2010

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米国で生きる日本人として

初めて渡米した03年春。あの当時のことは丸７年が経過した今でもはっきり覚えている。私が渡米したきっかけは、他の若い人たちにみられるような希望に満ち溢れた理由とはかけ離れたものだった。大学卒業後、新…

Miho Tokuyama • July 9, 2010

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City View Hospital and the Japanese Hospitals of California - Part 5

Read Part 4 >>TRUSTEESHIP OF THE JAPANESE HOSPITAL AND INTERNMENTWith the outbreak of war bet…

Troy Tashiro Kaji • July 9, 2010

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Hiroshima Story - Part 3

This is a story told by Sachiko Masuoka about living through the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.>&g…

Sachiko Masuoka • July 8, 2010

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日系アメリカ移民一世の新聞と文学－その２

＞＞その１２．移民地の「国内刊行物」さて、こうした言説空間の誕生にともなって、移民地における文学が本格的にスタートするわけだが、その前に以降の展開の前提となる事実を補足しておかねばならない。それは、…

Yoshitaka Hibi • July 7, 2010

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Yoshitaro Amano, Canal Zone Resident and Prisoner #203 - Part 1

My grandfather, Yoshitaro Amano, was one of the more than two thousand Japanese Latin Americans sei…

Esther Newman • July 7, 2010

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Five Places That Can Make a Hapa Feel at Home in NYC

For the first six years of my life, I was convinced that the United States and Japan were literally…

Leah Nanako Winkler • July 6, 2010

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

日本での外国人の社会統合とは

2010年2月、外務省、神奈川県、IOM国際移住機関の共催で「外国人の受け入れと社会統合のための国際ワークショップ」が開催されたが１、筆者は「外国人を受け入れる地域社会の意識啓発」という分科会（武蔵…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • July 5, 2010

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Gil Asakawa’s Guide to Japanese America

“Do you have to go benjo?” If you know what this phrase means, there’s a high pro…

Darryl Mori • July 5, 2010

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