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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

Hardship and happiness: A New Zealand war bride’s life — Hiroko Kadowaki, 1929-2021

June Baldwin and her son Leon reflect on their mother and grandmother, Hiroko Kadowaki, who migrated to New Zealand in 1956 after marrying a New …

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1966年9月11日の夜、私達を乗せた「さくら丸」はサントス港に碇を降ろした。翌日の朝からざわざわと下船が始まる。荷物下ろしも入国手続きもまったくの…

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Who Taught the Word skebe to Americans?: Skebe in Chicago's Japanese American Community - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> “Skebe” and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 In 1892, more Japanese began arriving in Chicago to prepare for Japan’s exhibit in …

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Expels up to 100,000 Droplets: "Ah-ah-ah..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Allergy Sufferers to Avoid (or ‘When “Geusundheit” Just Isn’t Enough...')” …

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Power of Our Stories

On Topaz Stories and “Authentic Voice”: A Conversation With Writer And Editor Ruth Sasaki - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Tamiko Nimura: As editor/curator, are there any particular segments in Topaz Stories that resonate for you? Ruth Sasaki: There are stories …

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

Caminho de volta

Recentemente, dona Yasuko se viu em uma situação em que tinha que provar que ela era... ela mesma. Possuindo parte dos documentos com o sobrenome …

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Power of Our Stories

On Topaz Stories and “Authentic Voice”: A Conversation With Writer And Editor Ruth Sasaki - Part 1

As a college student at UC Berkeley in the 1990s, I was searching for Sansei writers who wrote about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. …

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São Paulo recebe a exposição “Wakabayashi, Mestre da Pintura Nipo-Brasileira"

O conceituado pintor japonês Kazuo Wakabayashi completou em maio passado, noventa anos de idade, e para comemorar os oitenta de sua iniciação artística presenteia São …

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

My relationship with Nihongo

I think that most people who have Japanese origins have had contact with nihongo or colonia-go since childhood. It is a kind of Nikkei dialect …

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New Film Paper Chase Tells the Story of Japanese American Media

Japanese and Japanese American newspapers have been faithfully chronicling the history of the Japanese immigrant community since the late 1800s in the United States and …