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This past year, I worked with students and other volunteers to conduct an inventory of businesses i…

Evelyn Yoshimura • June 28, 2010

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Little Tokyo Community Profiles - 2010

The Tsunami of Little Tokyo - An Interview with Mr. Akimoto of Frying Fish Restaurant

Editor’s note: Discover Nikkei is an archive of stories representing different communities, v…

Kent Taroh Tonozuka • June 28, 2010

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Journal Entry #9 Looong Innings: "Uptown Blues..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • June 26, 2010

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From the perspective of two countries

ブレンダ・ウォン・アオキ～日米の物語を語る3世のソロ・パフォーマー～その１

2007年から2008年にかけて、ブレンダ・ウォン・アオキは、「日米芸術家交換プログラム」で、夫君でベース奏者のマーク・イズ、息子で打楽器奏者のカイ・カネ・アオキ・イズ（別名KK）とともに、日本に滞…

Tatsuya Sudo • June 25, 2010

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City View Hospital and the Japanese Hospitals of California - Part 3

Read Part 2 >>ETHNIC HOSPITALS IN THE UNITED STATESMany immigrant populations in the United S…

Troy Tashiro Kaji • June 25, 2010

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Hiroshima Story - Part 1

This is a story previously told by Sachiko Masuoka about living through the atomic bombing of Hiros…

Sachiko Masuoka • June 24, 2010

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解体していく「日本人」　－山城　正雄さん－

私がアメリカに来てから、この5月で丸30年になりました。すでに、日本で過ごした年月よりもアメリカでの日々の方が長くなっています。自分が日本人なのか、それとも日系人なのか、その辺の自覚が年々怪しくなっ…

Yukikazu Nagashima • June 23, 2010

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A Yonsei's Reflections...

on Real-Life Soundtracks

I’ve always thought that our lives would be so much more interesting if it came with a soundt…

Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda • June 23, 2010

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Joel Nakamura Mixes the Ancient and the Modern with Compassion... and Spam?

A giant fly hovers, poised on translucent wings that appear too small to support his weight, his fa…

Mia Nakaji Monnier • June 22, 2010

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Japanese education across the ocean

第12回　日系実業学校

ブラジルには実にさまざまな日系教育機関が存在したが、1930年代に農業学校や商業学校などいくつかの実業学校が設立されたことが確認できる。以前紹介したものの中では、日伯実科女学校やサンパウロ裁縫女学院…

Sachio Negawa • June 21, 2010

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