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Beyond Pop Culture: A Powerful Message of Self-Acceptance

Movies have long held unique power: to not only entertain but also give a “reality check” for the t…

Vaishnavi Kulkarni • April 20, 2025

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My School Has a Cultural Center? My Experience with the La Unión Cultural Center

When I left La Union School, it had reduced its weekly Japanese language hours as many more courses…

Hiro Ramos Nako • Aug. 27, 2024

cultural centers education high schools La Union School (Lima, Peru) schools students

Exile and Back: The Story of the Hirai Family

Chapter 5—Struggle to Adjust

Read Chapter 4 >> In stark contrast to Shig, who had previously lived in Canada till age nine and …

Stan Kirk • Feb. 18, 2024

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Exile and Back: The Story of the Hirai Family

Chapter 3—Childhood Experiences in Taga, Japan

Read Chapter 2 >> Miki had no problem adjusting to Japan due to being only two-years-old when he…

Stan Kirk • Feb. 4, 2024

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Jishuryo: Santa Beatriz School those times of our childhood — Part 2

Read Part 1 At Jishuryo School, the afternoon classes were not as hard as the morning classes. Usu…

Graciela Nakachi Morimoto • Jan. 31, 2024

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Dr. Jiro Takai's Journey of Becoming From the Soo to Nagoya University — Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Jiro’s Parents Remembering his father who has since passed on, Jiro shares his own…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Sept. 24, 2023

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Ginyu Igei: the teacher, the lighthouse

Ginyu Igei arrived in Peru with the halo of sensei. A teacher in his native Okinawa, the 26-year-o…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 18, 2023

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Japanese Women in Chicago

Part 1: Yone Hara

Even though their population was very small, the Japanese in pre-war Chicago were still able to for…

Takako Day • March 26, 2023

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The First Japanese American Battery Included a Future Hollywood Actor and a Philanthropist

Bigotry towards Japanese immigrants in San Francisco climaxed on October 11, 1906 when the city’s B…

Robert K. Fitts • April 23, 2021

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Sacred Heart School Yearbook Memoirs - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> 1945-46 Yearbook A message from Mayor W.E. McArthur Sr.: Most of you are of Jap…

Chuck Tasaka • April 2, 2021

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