Search | Journal | Discover Nikkei

Journal Search

Keywords

Tag

Series

Author

Kimi (kee-mee) Ishikawa

I have learned to write my name on name tags and doctor forms as “Kimi (kee-mee) Ishikawa.” I have…

Kimi Laurel Ishikawa • Oct. 2, 2024

Discover Nikkei Midwest Region (U.S.) names Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Names 2 (series) United States

The Legacy of Isamu Tashiro: Nisei from Hawaii in Chicago

Chapter 1—From Hawai‘i to the Midwest

In the 1910s, a Nikkei visitor from Hawai‘i once wrote a newspaper column expressing his surprise…

Takako Day • Dec. 10, 2023

baseball Chicago Hawai'i Illinois Midwest Region (U.S.) United States

A Surprise in the Midwest

Missouri is not a state you think of when looking for culture and diversity. We are part of “flyove…

Linda Austin • May 11, 2022

Midwest Region (U.S.) Missouri St. Louis United States

Clark & Division: Japanese Americans on Chicago’s Near North Side, 1940s-1960s - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> David Toguri I was born in Chicago in 1947 at Cuneo Hospital. Dr. Junji Hasegawa d…

Erik Matsunaga • Jan. 27, 2020

1940s 1950s 1960s Chicago Clark Street communities grocery stores Illinois Japantowns Lakeview Midwest Region (U.S.) stores United States

Clark & Division: Japanese Americans on Chicago’s Near North Side, 1940s-1960s - Part 1

Chicago’s Near North Side. In the early to mid-twentieth century it was a playground for the rich, …

Erik Matsunaga • Jan. 20, 2020

1940s 1950s 1960s Chicago Clark Street communities Illinois Japantowns Lakeview Midwest Region (U.S.) United States

JASC Partners With Alphawood Gallery on “Then They Came For Me;” Largest JA Incarceration Exhibit Ever in Midwest

On June 29th, 2017, the Alphawood Gallery, in partnership with the Japanese American Service Commit…

Ryan Masaaki Yokota • Feb. 1, 2018

Alphawood Gallery Chicago exhibitions galleries Illinois imprisonment incarceration Japanese Americans Midwest Region (U.S.) photographs photography resettlements Then They Came For Me (exhibition) United States World War II camps

A historical survey of Asian Americans in the Heartland

In 2009, I published an article about Japanese Americans in the Interior West, a field earlier pi…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Nov. 22, 2017

Asian Americans book reviews communities Detroit Japanese Americans Michigan Midwest Region (U.S.) resettlements reviews United States Vincent Chin

Michitaro Ongawa: The First Japanese American Chicagoan - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Evidence of Michitaro’s residence in the Midwest can be found in the Naniwa church,…

Takako Day • Dec. 8, 2016

cemeteries Chicago dance generations Illinois immigrants immigration intermarriage interracial marriages Issei Japan Japanese dance marriages Michitaro Ongawa Midwest Region (U.S.) migration missionaries performances Umanoshin Sawayama United States

Japanese Americans on Chicago’s South Side - Oakland/Kenwood 1940s-1950s - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> When my husband and I were first married, we lived in a building on the 4300 bloc…

Erik Matsunaga • Dec. 3, 2015

Chicago communities Illinois Midwest Region (U.S.) postwar resettlements United States World War II

Japanese Americans on Chicago’s South Side - Oakland/Kenwood 1940s-1950s - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Dad was a Kibei, born in Hawaii, came to the States to teach Japanese. He was put i…

Erik Matsunaga • Dec. 2, 2015

Chicago communities Illinois Midwest Region (U.S.) postwar resettlements United States World War II

Discover Nikkei Updates

SUPPORT THE PROJECT

Discover Nikkei’s 20 for 20 campaign celebrates our first 20 years and jumpstarts our next 20. Learn more and donate!

SHARE YOUR MEMORIES

We are collecting our community’s reflections on the first 20 years of Discover Nikkei. Check out this month’s prompt and send us your response!

PROJECT UPDATES

New Site Design
See exciting new changes to Discover Nikkei. Find out what’s new and what’s coming soon!