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No. 61: John Manjiro's descendants speak out

An extraordinary life story and achievements While there are many immigrants and migrants who trav…

Ryusuke Kawai • April 25, 2025

California friendship international relations interpersonal relations Japan Kochi Prefecture Manjiro Nakahama Massachusetts migration Okinawa Prefecture Shikoku United States U.S.-Japan relations

Greg Robinson’s Take on Jonathan’s 100th Column

Now that my friend and collaborator Jonathan van Harmelen is publishing his 100th column for Discov…

Greg Robinson • Nov. 6, 2024

friendship historians history interpersonal relations Jonathan van Harmelen students

Paul Takagi: A Centenary Remembrance

May 3, 2023 marks the 100th birthday of the late Bay Area scholar and advocate Paul Takagi. As prof…

Greg Robinson • May 3, 2023

Berkeley California criminology friendship interpersonal relations Paul Takagi scholars United States universities University of California, Berkeley

Cuando llegue el momento

Una antigua canción mexicana me hace acordar aquellos viejos momentos ya vividos. La tendencia de t…

Luis Iguchi Iguchi • Jan. 18, 2023

friendship interpersonal relations Peru

Goodbye, friend Mitsuya

Year 1956. It was the year I dared to send a poem of my inspiration to the Peru Asahi Shimbun newsp…

Luis Iguchi Iguchi • Jan. 11, 2021

AELU Tennis bullfighting friendship interpersonal relations Japanese language newspapers journalism journalists Lima newspapers Peru Peru Shimpo (newspaper) Ricardo Mitsuya Higa sports tennis Union Stadium Association

Way Down in Egypt Land: Tamio Wakayama, Civil Rights Photographer - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> I cannot recall precisely when I first heard of Tamio Wakayama. Although I owned a …

Greg Robinson • March 12, 2020

activism Ed Nakawatase friendship Greg Robinson interpersonal relations Japanese Canadians photographers photography social action Tamio Wakayama

Tessaku

Aiko Ebihara

“During all of those long years of World War II, I took that Evacuation Day very personally. For …

Emiko Tsuchida • April 24, 2019

California concentration camps friendship interpersonal relations Oregon Salem Tule Lake concentration camp United States World War II camps

Nisei Story: Unexpected Friendship Lost and Found

Teresa Chizu Kurisu lived a normal Powell Street life as a child. She attended Strathcona Elementar…

Chuck Tasaka • July 21, 2017

British Columbia Canada friendship Greenwood (B.C.) interpersonal relations Japanese Canadians Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) streets Vancouver (B.C.) World War II

Growing up in L.A.'s Little Tokyo in the 1950s

Growing up in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was a lot of fun. Japanese American and Mexican American …

Freddie Parra • Feb. 25, 2016

1950s Azusa Street California children festivals friendship games interpersonal relations Japanese Americans Little Tokyo Los Angeles Mexican Americans Nisei Week (event) Nisei Week Parade parades United States

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #2,4,6,8 Who Do We Appreciate?: "Group Dynamics..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • June 4, 2011

cartoonists cartoons comics friendship humor interpersonal relations

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