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10th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Color
I moved to a town covered in orange carpet that glistened in the sunlight. “That’s the…

Miho Hirayama • May 24, 2023

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California fiction Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
California fiction Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
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10th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
One Thousand Cranes
The gentle breeze carrying the scent of freshly made mochi from the next-door shop greeted me as I …

Jocelyn Doan • May 21, 2023

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California fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles origami paper cranes United States
California fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles origami paper cranes United States
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Excerpt from Atomweight — Prologue
I took another sip of the too sweet cocktail in front of me. “Surprise me,” I had sai…

Emi Sasagawa • May 11, 2023

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Atomweight (book) Emi Sasagawa fiction novels
Atomweight (book) Emi Sasagawa fiction novels
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Interview with Emi Sasagawa, Author of Atomweight
Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has be…

John Endo Greenaway • May 10, 2023

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authors British Columbia Canada Emi Sasagawa families fiction hapa identity Japanese Brazilians journalism journalists LGBTQ+ novels people racially mixed people Vancouver (B.C.) writers
authors British Columbia Canada Emi Sasagawa families fiction hapa identity Japanese Brazilians journalism journalists LGBTQ+ novels people racially mixed people Vancouver (B.C.) writers
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 44 (Part 1) "I'm back home"
Paulo had already made up his mind when he was in junior high school: "After graduating from h…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • April 20, 2023

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 43: Tomomi and Naruto both pursue their dreams
Tomomi is 19 years old and has a Japanese father and a Japanese-Brazilian mother. Tomomi's moth…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Jan. 30, 2023

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dekasegi fiction foreign workers Nikkei in Japan
dekasegi fiction foreign workers Nikkei in Japan
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 42: Bachan comes to Japan!
My name is Ryoma Leonardo and I'm 11 years old. "Ryuma" was chosen by my Brazilian pa…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Dec. 16, 2022

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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Katherine Birkinshaw writes about her mother's experiences as a survivor of the atomic bombing
Daughter's illness and mother's confession There is a novel called "Last Cherry Bloss…

Keiko Fukuda • Nov. 28, 2022

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atomic bomb survivors families fiction hibakusha Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture Japan Kathleen Burkinshaw The Last Cherry Blossom (book)
atomic bomb survivors families fiction hibakusha Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture Japan Kathleen Burkinshaw The Last Cherry Blossom (book)
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 41: Yugo and his mother are separated
When Hugo was four years old, his parents separated and his mother, Eneida, returned alone to her h…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Oct. 21, 2022

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Brazil dekasegi families fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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My Name is Neal
Journal Entry #2 in First Class: "Fantasy Traveling..."
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • June 25, 2022

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cartoonists cartoons comics fantasy fiction fiction humor
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