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José Ernesto Matsumoto: 101 years of history between Mexico and Japan — Part 2, His return to Mexico

Read part 1 The naval battalion to which José Ernesto Matsumoto belonged was part of the first ant…

Sergio Hernández Galindo • Nov. 12, 2024

business economics floriculture food Japan Japanese food José Ernesto Matsumoto management medals Mexico noodles ramen World War II

The Vancouver Asahi: The Search for Hall of Fame Medalists' Families

Yuji Uchiyama — Part 2

Read Part 1 Yuji Uchiyama’s Biography Yuji Uchiyama was born in 1895 as the eldest son to his f…

Yobun Shima • Sept. 2, 2024

baseball Canada medals prewar sports Vancouver Asahi (baseball team)

The Vancouver Asahi: The Search for Hall of Fame Medalists' Families

Yuji Uchiyama — Part 1

My Ten Years with Vancouver Asahi In Major League Baseball in the United States these days, Shohei…

Yobun Shima • Sept. 1, 2024

baseball Canada medals prewar sports Vancouver Asahi (baseball team)

Two Hawai‘i Soldiers Receive Medal of Honor

Surrounded and stranded for two days in a forbidden Laotian South Vietnamese firebase, the countr…

Gregg K. Kakesako • Aug. 2, 2022

armed forces Dennis M. Fujii Edward Noboru Kaneshiro Medal of Honor medals retired military personnel United States veterans Vietnam War, 1961-1975

A Silver Star Story

Less than a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the 100th Infantry Battalion …

Thomas M. Nishi • Nov. 11, 2021

442nd Regimental Combat Team armed forces families fathers medals military decorations retired military personnel Silver Star (medal) United States Army veterans World War II

Gifts from Jichan and Bachan

Gifts from Japan

Jichan and Bachan brought back many beautiful gifts from their trips to Japan. They ordered lovely,…

Susan Yamamura • Sept. 16, 2020

awards charity gifts Japan Japanese Americans medals Order of the Rising Sun

Tetsuo Okamoto, a hero of Brazilian swimming: A miracle born from Japan-Brazil exchange

First medal in swimming at the 1st Helsinki Olympics

Nisei swimmer Tetsuo Okamoto (born 1932 - died 2007) brought the first Olympic medal to both Brazil…

Masayuki Fukasawa • June 22, 2020

athletics Brazil Finland Helsinki medals Olympics São Paulo sports swimming Tetsuo Okamoto

Nikkei Chronicles #8—Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

The Hero I Never Met

My hero Is my late father-in-law Yoneto James Nakata. He was the father of my wife, Mary Nakata. Sh…

John Sunada • Sept. 12, 2019

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Nikkei Chronicles #8—Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations

Medal of Honor Heroes: Daniel Inouye and Joe Sakato

Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1943. My uncle Kenney Miyake visited us. Uncle Kenney is my mother’s broth…

Michael Hosokawa • July 19, 2019

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Tetsuo Okamoto Swam to Show His “Japanese Spirit”—He Was One of Three Athletes of Japanese Ethnicity Representing Three Countries That Dominated the Podium of the 1,500-meter Freestyle Swimming at the Helsinki Olympic Games

Just two months away from the Rio Olympic Games, let us take a moment here. Do you know that once i…

Masayuki Fukasawa • June 14, 2016

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