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The Sword and the Typewriter: The Life and Times of Hydesaburo Ohashi
Chapter 6—An Unusual Life
Read Chapter 5 During Ohashi’s time in America, US-Japan political relations deteriorated steadily…

Aaron Cohen • March 24, 2025

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generations Harvard University immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese migration migrants migration New York (N.Y.) World War I
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The Sword and the Typewriter: The Life and Times of Hydesaburo Ohashi
Chapter 4—Ohashi the Inventor
Read Chapter 3 The Sino-Chinese War, one of three major developments for Japan in the latter half …

Aaron Cohen • March 10, 2025

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business economics entrepreneurship Harvard University immigrants immigration inventions management migration New York (N.Y.) patents small business
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Japanese Americans and the Federal Writers Project: Part II—The New York Project
Read Part I Beyond making the WPA guidebooks, FWP workers in various places were hired to do speci…

James Sun +1 • Feb. 27, 2025

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Franklin D. Roosevelt generations Great Depression, 1929-1939 life interviews New York (N.Y.) Nisei oral histories presidents United States
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Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?
Looking Back—A Sansei Reflects on Names and Identity
It seems weird to me, now, but I never asked them. I never asked my parents why they chose, from th…

Tamio Spiegel • Nov. 25, 2024

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Discover Nikkei generations hapa identity Jewish Japanese names New York (N.Y.) Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Names 2 (series) racially mixed children racially mixed people Sansei
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The Kai family: A Transnational Nisei Story - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> An intriguing pendant to the life of Yoshio Kai is the story of his sister Miwa, si…

Greg Robinson • June 2, 2022

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Columbia University Library families Kai family Miwa Kai music New York (N.Y.) pianists prewar
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Renaissance Artist and “Mad Man” – The Life of Shugo Seno
The world of Japanese American visual artists is diverse. Most art historians focus on the notable …

Jonathan van Harmelen • April 12, 2022

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artists design New York (N.Y.) Shugo Seno singing
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Toge Fujihira: Master Photographer and World Traveler - Part 1
Toge Fujihira (whose family name was sometimes reported as Fujihara) left the West Coast in the yea…

Greg Robinson +1 • Sept. 27, 2021

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filmmakers generations New York (N.Y.) Nisei photographers photography Seattle Toge Fujihira United States Washington
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Kichi Harada: A Blossoming Life
Several scholars who have studied Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement have mentioned a J…

Matthieu Langlois • July 6, 2021

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culture generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese culture Kichi Harada migration New York (N.Y.)
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Sometimes the Smaller Things Tell a Greater Story
A woman arrives at New York City after a long trip from Detroit. She writes to a distant friend abo…

Jonathan van Harmelen • May 19, 2020

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California concentration camps Detroit Michigan New York (N.Y.) postcards resettlements San Francisco Topaz concentration camp United States Utah war World War II camps
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Bon Yagi: Emperor of New York’s Japanese East Village - Part 1
The first time I interviewed Bon Yagi, the New York City businessman who has built an empire of 13 …

Nancy Matsumoto • Nov. 5, 2015

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Bon Yagi business Curry-Ya (restaurant) economics food generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese food management migration New York (N.Y.) New York (state) Otafuku x Medetai (restaurant) postwar Rai Rai Ken (restaurant) restaurants Sakagura (restaurant) Shin-Issei United States World War II
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