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By the Shore of Lake Michigan: A Writer's Tanka Poetry Translation Pays Tribute to Her Issei Grandparents — Part 2

Read Part 1 Heart Mountain, Revisited Nancy does not recall when she first heard the word “camp” …

Tai Bickhard • April 19, 2025

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By the Shore of Lake Michigan: A Writer's Tanka Poetry Translation Pays Tribute to Her Issei Grandparents — Part 1

Fifteen years ago, Nancy Matsumoto, an award-winning journalist and author, took on a new project. …

Tai Bickhard • April 18, 2025

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Attempts at Remembering

For the next few months, we have the pleasure and privilege of being able to feature selections in …

Syd Westley +2 • Jan. 23, 2025

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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 …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Jan. 12, 2025

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When the Grayness Left Heart Mountain

My father, Bill Hosokawa (1915–2007), was a prolific Japanese American journalist and author who …

Michael Hosokawa • Dec. 25, 2024

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Hidden Memories in Scrap Wood: The Family History of the Homma Chair

A dark brown wood dining chair with a few nicks and scratches around the edges sits in a display ca…

Marjorie Hunt • Nov. 14, 2024

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Bon Odori in the American Concentration Camps — Part 1

In the spring of 1942, people of Japanese descent living on the American West Coast were incarcerat…

Wynn Kiyama • June 26, 2024

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How Congress Killed the Kiln, But Not the Artist—Minnie Negoro and the Heart Mountain Pottery Plant

As part of my ongoing research on Congress and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, I have foun…

Jonathan van Harmelen • June 12, 2024

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Exploring Washi Jewelry With Reiko Nakano

I first heard of washi as a kid at the craft store buying rolls of what was advertised to be “was…

Emily Hood • May 3, 2024

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Suma Sugi Yokotake – The Woman Who Became The First Japanese American Lobbyist - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Upon her return to Los Angeles, the Los Angeles JACL and the Rafu Shimpo feted Sugi…

Jonathan van Harmelen • March 8, 2024

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