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10th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Each year, the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by challenging both …

Jocelyn Doan +6 • May 21, 2023 - June 9, 2023

1st Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

As part of Little Tokyo Historical Society’s 130th Anniversary of Little Tokyo (1884-2014) celebratory activities throughout the year, Little Tokyo …

Avril Adams +7 • Oct. 6, 2014 - Jan. 12, 2015

2nd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

The Little Tokyo Historical Society conducted its second annual short story (fiction) writing contest which concluded on April 22, 2015 …

Nathaniel J. Campbell +13 • June 29, 2015 - Oct. 12, 2015

3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s third short story contest has concluded with more creative stories related to the Little Tokyo …

Yuriko Chavez +4 • Sept. 12, 2016 - Aug. 23, 2017

4th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s fourth short story contest concluded with an Awards Reception held on the evening of Thursday, …

Elizabeth Farris +1 • Sept. 11, 2017 - Sept. 13, 2017

5th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s fifth-short story contest concluded with an Awards Reception held on the evening of Thursday, April 19, …

Madeline Parga +2 • April 17, 2019 - May 1, 2019

6th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

The Little Tokyo Historical Society’s sixth-short story contest concluded with an Awards Reception held on the evening of Thursday, April 18, …

Austen Lock +2 • May 17, 2019 - May 31, 2019

7th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Each year, the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo …

Junzo Arai +3 • July 24, 2020 - Aug. 14, 2020

80 Years Since the Internment of Japanese Canadians

February 19, 1942, when Executive Order 9066 was issued, is the “Day of Remembrance” for Japanese Americans. This day should …

Yusuke Tanaka • April 25, 2022 - May 9, 2022

8th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Each year, the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo …

Kendra Arimoto +7 • May 24, 2021 - July 5, 2021

9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Each year, the Little Tokyo Historical Society’s Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by challenging both …

George Cooksey +4 • May 27, 2022 - June 24, 2022

Adventures of a Nikkei Fan Boy

An occasional cartoon series about a Sansei exploring Nikkei culture in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Raymond Nakamura • Oct. 17, 2012 - Dec. 11, 2013

A Japanese Canadian Child-Exile: The Life History of Basil Izumi

This series is the life history of Basil Tadashi Izumi, who was born into a Japanese Canadian Anglican family in …

Stan Kirk • April 24, 2018 - June 5, 2018

A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Kazuko Makihara

This series presents the life history of Kazuko Makihara, a second-generation Japanese Canadian who was born and raised near Vancouver …

Stan Kirk • Oct. 25, 2019 - Nov. 22, 2019

A Japanese Canadian Teenage Exile: The Life History of Takeshi (Tak) Matsuba

This series tells the life history of Takeshi (‘Tak’) Matsuba, a second-generation Japanese Canadian born in Vancouver to immigrants from …

Stan Kirk • March 9, 2020 - April 20, 2020

A lonely longing for home - From the letters of Morikami Suketsugu, a Japanese immigrant in Florida

In the early 20th century, the Japanese village of Yamato Colony appeared in southern Florida. Morikami Sukeji (George Morikami), who …

Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 25, 2019 - Oct. 30, 2020

An encounter that was infinitely far away

Based on the diary written by his father, who emigrated to Brazil alone at the age of 19 in 1934 …

Hidemitsu Miyamura • Jan. 18, 2013 - Dec. 2, 2013

An L.A. Sansei's Misadventures in South America

John Katagi is a former staff member of the Japanese American National Museum. He shares memories from almost two decades …

John Katagi • Dec. 18, 2008 - June 26, 2014

APA Spotlight

"APA Spotlight" is a regular interview series on 8asians.com by Koji Steven Sakai interviewing Asian American community leaders from around the country. Check 8asians.com …

Koji Steven Sakai • Dec. 16, 2010 - March 27, 2012

A record of my mother, born in Manchuria, who returned to Japan after the war

Before World War II, Japanese people migrated to a wide range of areas in Asia, and as of 1940, there …

Keiko Fukuda • Oct. 5, 2022 - Oct. 19, 2022

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