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Kuroki’s Life of “Patriotism, Courage, Teamwork, and Tolerance” and a “Lapse into Superpatriotism”

Although there are no such things as secular books that are definitive, Gregg Jones’ magisterial …

Nichi Bei News +1 • Jan. 12, 2025

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Unveiling the Unknown: Understanding Japanese Canadian History Through An Insider’s Perspective

Throughout our evolution as human beings, stories of those who lived before us have been passed dow…

Chiana Fujiwara • Jan. 2, 2025

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Summer of the Big Bachi: Naomi Hirahara’s Japanese American Mystery

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Naomi Hirahara’s first Mas Arai novel, Summer of the Big B…

Darryl Mori • Dec. 30, 2024

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OKÃSAN: A Testimony of the Search for Understanding

Okãsan is an emotional and engaging account of a mother who travels to Japan for the first time to …

Katsuo Higuchi • Dec. 23, 2024

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A Tribute to Salinas Valley’s Tenacious Issei

I first became aware of the reverential esteem in which the Issei generation was held within the Ja…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Nov. 17, 2024

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Part 53: What is Asian America?

Start by knowing When the new coronavirus, which was first identified in Wuhan, China, also raged …

Ryusuke Kawai • Oct. 25, 2024

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Revisiting the Canon: A Review of Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung's anthology The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

In 2022, I received an email from my friend Frank Abe, informing me that he and Floyd Cheung had …

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 21, 2024

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Narratives of Resilience and Resistance—Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung on The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration — Part 1

In May 2024, Penguin Classics published The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration. Edited…

Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 7, 2024

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An Extensive Analysis of Shin-Issei Lives

In 2010, I was privileged to provide a peer evaluation of the late Lane Hirabayashi to support a st…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 21, 2024

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Book Review—White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

“Anti-Chinese sentiment is on the rise yet again, especially since 2020 with the COVID-19 pande…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 29, 2024

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