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Part 8: Kiyo Tashiro—Physician and Athlete

This is the latest installment of my series on the remarkable Tashiro family. In my next columns,…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 28, 2024

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Tokita Tales

Haruko (Mom), A Football Fan

Haruko (Mom), a football fan? Yes, a football fan. How so? Well, three of her youngest sons, Yuzo,…

Shokichi “Shox” Tokita • Dec. 30, 2022

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Eagles of Heart Mountain, Bradford Pearson Uses Football As a ‘Trojan Horse’

In Eagles of Heart Mountain, football is all but pretext. The book, journalist Bradford Pearson’s…

Mia Nakaji Monnier • Nov. 5, 2021

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Book on Heart Mountain football team achieves brilliance

For a number of years I have been working on a sports and society book treating the social and cu…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • July 30, 2021

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Japanese American baseball pioneer to be honored by Asian Hall of Fame

Kaname “Wally” Yonamine could have had a pioneering career in the NFL as a running back with the …

Jason Cruz • Dec. 2, 2020

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Kin was Much More than Kind: The Japanese Student Who Transformed Maryville

Kin Takahashi, a Japanese student at Maryville College in Eastern Tennessee at the turn of the 20…

Greg Robinson • Nov. 30, 2020

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Jeff Tanaka’s got the best seats in the house

Watch a Chicago Bulls game and try to find Jeff Tanaka. On gameday he’ll be sitting courtside, but…

Andy Yamashita • April 28, 2020

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A true story “Brides in America”

Kaoru Holiday, who moved to the U.S. in 1996 and currently lives in Yorktown, Virginia

Became a dental hygienist at Yokota Air Base and eloped with her husband Kaoru, who currently works…

Keiko Fukuda • April 4, 2018

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Scott Fujita

Over the weekend I was working at the Japanese American Bar Association Annual Fundraising Gala. A …

Shane Sato • Oct. 9, 2017

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Be a Good Sport About it: Early Nikkei Athletes in Louisiana

Over the past several years, I have been engaged in large-scale research on the remarkable and larg…

Greg Robinson • Sept. 5, 2017

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