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Richard “Sonny” Tanabe, the Hawaiian Water Man

As Nikkei, each of us has various topics that interest us. Thus, we have some who have studied abou…

Alberto Teramoto Ohara • Feb. 18, 2025

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Is Your Family From Ucluelet on The West Coast of Vancouver Island?

Ucluelet occupies a special place in Japanese Canadian history. Beginning in 1916-20, as Japanese C…

Paul Kariya +1 • Feb. 8, 2024

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Part 35: American Village in Mihama, Wakayama - On the way to Japan's coastline ④

If you head towards the Kii Peninsula along the coastline from Ago Bay in Mie Prefecture, you will …

Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 8, 2023

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No. 24 Japanese Canadian Pioneers - From "The Story of Manzo in Canada"

The life of Nagano Manzo, the first Japanese immigrant to Canada, who was introduced in the previou…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 24, 2023

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No. 23 Manzo Nagano, a pioneer of Canadian immigration — Discover his footsteps in Kuchinotsu, Nagasaki Prefecture

Since the summer before last, I have been traveling by car intermittently along the coastline of Ja…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 10, 2023

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Tokita Tales

Parental Responsibilities

The phrase “parental responsibilities,” as stated, is quite obvious and doesn’t need much of an exp…

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • Jan. 10, 2023

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Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Forced Exile to Japan Kanshiro Koyama was relieved. Now what is ahead for him? Wou…

Daniel “Yosh” Koyama +2 • Feb. 11, 2022

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Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Meanwhile in Japan When war came, the first thing the Japanese government did wa…

Daniel “Yosh” Koyama +2 • Feb. 4, 2022

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Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 1

Foreword by Phyllis Parham Reeve We came to Page’s Resort & Marina on Silva Bay, Gabriola Islan…

Daniel “Yosh” Koyama +2 • Jan. 28, 2022

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Takeshi Morita: A Mexican Fisherman Imprisoned in U.S. concentration camps

The Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 triggered war between the two c…

Sergio Hernández Galindo +1 • Jan. 21, 2022

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