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Some Recollections & Thoughts about Uncle Tachi - Part 1
James Tatsushi Ukita was born on December 14, 1920 being one of four children of Frank Masashi Uk…

Russell Tadao Ukita • March 17, 2020

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basketball California Chicago concentration camps draft families Illinois Manzanar concentration camp national service sports United States United States Army World War II camps
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5th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Life at the (Little Tokyo) Budokan
Jeff maneuvered his sleek black Audi off the freeway. He peered in either direction, unable to get …

James Toma • April 17, 2019

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basketball California communities community centers families fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles sons sports Terasaki Budokan United States
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Love of the Game Propels Bay Area Man into Basketball Big Time
It’s an incongruous sight, five-foot-four-inch Kyle Nishimoto on a basketball court craning…

John Sammon • Oct. 23, 2018

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basketball coaches Golden State Warriors (basketball team) NBA G League Reno Bighorns (basketball team) Sacramento Kings (basketball team) sports Stockton Kings (basketball team)
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An Open Letter to the Japanese American Basketball Community
Isn’t it crazy how far we’ve come? To most outsiders, this community might not mean m…

Camryn Hamaguchi • Aug. 17, 2018

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basketball communities sports
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The Eyes Have It: Nisei Contact Lens Pioneer Dr. Newton Wesley
One fun area of work in history is discovering the connections between everyday products and their …

Greg Robinson • Nov. 21, 2017

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basketball contact lenses inventions Newton K. Wesley optometrists sports
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Chicago's Sansei Yonsei Athletic Association Basketball Clinic
Prior to WWII, there were roughly four hundred persons of Japanese ancestry living in Chicago. By 1…

Erik Matsunaga • Feb. 15, 2017

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basketball Chicago Chicago Nisei Athletic Association communities generations Illinois Japanese American Service Committee (organization) postwar resettlements Sansei Sansei Yonsei Athletic Association sports Ty Momii United States World War II Yonsei
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The Japanese American Basketball Connection - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> The establishment in 1947 of a Southern California NAU to oversee a basketbal…

Chris Komai • March 17, 2016

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aesthetics basketball California communities generations Japanese American basketball leagues Japanese American National Museum Japanese Americans Japanese language newspapers metaphysics More Than a Game (book) newspapers Nisei Athletic Union psychology Rafu Shimpo (newspaper) Sansei sports theory of knowledge United States values
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The Japanese American Basketball Connection - Part 1
When I was five years old, our family lived in Los Angeles on 12th Avenue, near what was known as t…

Chris Komai • March 16, 2016

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aesthetics Akira Komai basketball California Chris Komai communities games Japanese American basketball leagues Japanese American National Museum Japanese Americans Japanese language newspapers metaphysics More Than a Game (book) newspapers Nisei Athletic Union psychology Rafu Shimpo (newspaper) sports theory of knowledge United States values
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Nanka Nikkei Voices
The Elevator Encounter
About a year ago, a friend and I were boarding an elevator in a downtown high-rise. I pushed the bu…

Ellen Endo • Oct. 8, 2015

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basketball communities education Japanese American Historical Society of Southern California Japanese language newspapers Nanaka Nikkei Voices (series) newspapers publications Rafu Shimpo (newspaper) sports students
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The Real Lives of Origami Figures
It’s All How You Look at It
I recently got an iPad for traveling abroad. I wanted to be able to write and draw without lugging …

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura • July 16, 2014

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basketball cartoons comics humor origami paper cranes perception snowballs sports tsuru
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