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Two Weddings and a Funeral

I’m not yet at the age where I scan the obituaries for people I knew, like I remember my fath…

Ben Arikawa • June 4, 2012

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A House is Not A (Clean) Home

Now that Christmas is over (albeit our family is in the final day of Chanukah), a powerful force ha…

Jayne Hirata • Jan. 4, 2012

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Nikkei Heritage

Oshogatsu - A Japanese Tradition in America

When I met Julie, we shared a desire to keep our house open to our friends and community as much as…

Tamio Spiegel • Jan. 3, 2012

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Da Kine Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel

Even though I will always manage to work into any conversation that two of my three children are in…

Jayne Hirata • Dec. 22, 2011

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Mochitsuki Tradition: Mochi Making the Old School Way

Like turkey on Thanksgiving for Americans, a “must have” for Japanese and Nikkei around…

Soji Kashiwagi • Jan. 7, 2011

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A Yonsei's Reflections...

on Mixed Holidays

Growing up, every year on the evening of March 16th, I would always make sure to wear something gre…

Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda • March 20, 2009

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My Involvement in the Kenjinkai

I had my eye on the prize…a cute white wicker purse with bright red plastic cherries decorat…

Arlene Nakamura • March 18, 2009

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Am I Unstable? Or am I just a Hapa?

I have an early memory of a “bowing war” that occurred between my Japanese grandmother …

Leah Nanako Winkler • March 6, 2009

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry # Over 500 Years: "Gimme that ondo beat..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Sept. 20, 2008

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A Japanese Perspective on Oshogatsu

Discover Nikkei received this message from Yuko Tani in Japan. Tani is responding to an article abo…

Yuko Tani • Jan. 10, 2008

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