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Japanese Companies Active in Brazil Today

Part 27—“A healthy intestine leads to a long life” is the motto: Yakult Brazil, boasting the largest lineup overseas

Tomoko Oura • March 21, 2025

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Surging

It’s hard to believe that this month we celebrate the 100th edition of Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry c…

Richard Hamasaki +2 • March 20, 2025

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A Tulare Memorial Project Sheds New Light on a Little Known WWII Incarceration Site

In 2017, I drove down Highway 99, hoping to stop at all of the temporary detention facilities, know…

Koji Lau-Ozawa • March 19, 2025

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Yurei : the ghosts of Japanese immigration to Mexico

Yurei ( Ghosts ) is memory, silences, nostalgia and secrets. The documentary directed by Mexican …

Enrique Higa Sakuda • March 18, 2025

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The Sword and the Typewriter: The Life and Times of Hydesaburo Ohashi

Chapter 5—Settling Ohashi’s Estate

Read Chapter 4 When Ohashi began work on his typewriter devices, prices in the carbon paper and ri…

Aaron Cohen • March 17, 2025

We Have Been Here Before: A Speech for Tsuru for Solidarity and La Resistencia at the Northwest Detention Center

On Sunday, February 23, 2025, close to 300 people stood in the rain in front of the Northwest ICE…

Tamiko Nimura • March 16, 2025

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #6" or Less: "Good Things Come in Small Packages..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • March 15, 2025

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George Takei

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Nisei Paraguayan, Researcher

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