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Hiro-chan, asagohan yo! – that’s how my mother would call me for breakfast, as I promptly got up with joy and an eagerness to savor a …
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Have you ever had a discussion about your family protocols with your father, mother, or both? In the Kamekichi and Haruko Tokita family, it was …
Years ago, a management headhunter called me about a job opening at a small but prestigious journal. I was excited about the prospect of working …
My mom tells me that when my oldest Nisei auntie died in 2016, there were so many boxes in the shed next to her house. …
Like many Sansei, I heard the admonishment “mottainai” countless times in my childhood. The Japanese word, which basically means, “too good to waste,” was the …
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As a Japanese American Sansei who has trudged through every practical definition of senior citizenship, I am gratified to have been able to witness the …
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On the paternal side, his great-grandfather’s parents came from the Hokkaido Prefecture and his great-grandmother’s from Gunma. On his mother’s side, his great-grandfather’s parents were …
My name is Filipe Fukutani, a fourth generation half Brazilian half Japanese born in Brazil. I grew up in a non-traditional household in the suburbs …
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What speaks as we continue on, through the generations or through a single moment we need to survive? What does that breath or utterance or …
It is stated in the “Divine Message of Grand Harmony” by Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi as follows: “Be reconciled with the whole universe. When you are …
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