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The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations
My Experience with Nikkei Children at the 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage
This year was my third Tule Lake Pilgrimage and it was extra special for me. An important event at …

Richard Murakami • Sept. 3, 2018

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California concentration camps generations pilgrimages Sansei Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps youth
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A sweet Japanese corner
A descendant of the prefectures of Hiroshima, Shizuoka and Saitama, businesswoman Miriam Ishikava,…

Tatiana Maebuchi • May 30, 2018

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Brazil food generations Hachi Crepe (restaurant) Japan restaurants Sansei São Paulo
Brazil food generations Hachi Crepe (restaurant) Japan restaurants Sansei São Paulo
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A community leader with Japanese values ​​— Ronaldo Yuzo Ogasawara
Ronaldo Yuzo Ogasawara, 39, is a real estate businessman, sansei and part of his roots are in the …

Tatiana Maebuchi • April 10, 2018

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communities generations identity Ronaldo Yuzo Ogasawara Sansei
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Nikkei Car Clubs
Don Mizota was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and as a toddler, he and his family spent the wartime ye…

Oliver Wang • March 12, 2018

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1950s automobiles California car clubs clubs Don Mizota generations motor vehicles Nisei postwar resettlements San Fernando Valley Sansei Southern California United States World War II
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A profile of a century-old Buddhist church in Southern California and its missionaries
In the Japanese community of Southern California, which has a history of 120 years, the Jodo Shinsh…

Shigeharu Higashi • Feb. 14, 2018

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Buddhism Buddhist Churches of America (organization) California Gardena Buddhist Church generations John Kazunori Iohara religion religions Sansei United States
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Reading Japanese American Literature
Episode 18 (final episode) "I was supposed to be an American"
David Mura, a poet of third-generation Japanese-American birth in 1952, has always wondered about w…

Ryusuke Kawai • Nov. 10, 2017

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David Mura generations identity Sansei Turning Japanese (book)
David Mura generations identity Sansei Turning Japanese (book)
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Nikkei View
The Legacy of the Sansei from a “Ni-hansei” perspective
When I was a kid, I used to tell people who asked what generation I was, that I was “Ni-hanse…

Gil Asakawa • Oct. 5, 2017

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culture generations Japanese Americans legacies Nikkei View (blog) (series) Redress movement Sansei World War II
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The Story Behind that YELLOW BROTHERHOOD Shirt
In the late 1960s, a group of Los Angeles Japanese American ex-gang members, many at the time eithe…

Erik Matsunaga • Sept. 19, 2017

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1960s 1970s Asian American movement California gangs generations Los Angeles Sansei United States Yellow Brotherhood (organization)
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Sansei Legacy: Never Again!
When pressed, Sansei give lip service to the obvious fact that we are now old. But we don’t r…

Karen Ishizuka • Sept. 8, 2017

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activism California concentration camps generations imprisonment incarceration Manzanar concentration camp Never Again! (slogan) pilgrimages Redress movement Sansei social action United States World War II camps
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I went to Japan when I was 6 years old, studied and graduated. Today I am a Japanese citizen
The story of Clayyton, Sansei, now 28 years old, is yet another example of young Brazilians who lef…

Katsuo Higuchi • Aug. 28, 2017

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Brazil dekasegi education foreign workers generations identity Japan languages Nikkei in Japan Sansei
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