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Beyond Pop Culture: A Powerful Message of Self-Acceptance

Movies have long held unique power: to not only entertain but also give a “reality check” for the t…

Vaishnavi Kulkarni • April 20, 2025

culture film directors films high schools identity Japan J-pop (music) K-pop (music) popular music schools South Korea teenagers

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Part 59 Getting to Know San Jose Japantown

A rare community that preserves Japanese traditions San Jose, California, is known as one of the…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 28, 2025

California communities culture exhibitions Japan Japanese American Museum of San Jose (organization) Japanese Overseas Migration Museum Japantowns Kanagawa Prefecture Kanto Region (Japan) museums San Jose traditions United States Yokohama

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Part 57 (2) Pursuing a world where cultures intersect

Read Part 57 (Part 1) Since her experience studying abroad in the United States in the 1970s, Away…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 28, 2025

arts culture identity Japanese music minorities multiculturalism music performing arts

Aiko Yamada: Eisa to Remember Peru

Aiko Yamada Yoshimoto grew up in Lima, Peru, but her connection to traditional eisa dance of Okinaw…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Feb. 22, 2024

Aiko Yamada Yoshimoto culture eisa (dance) folk dances Okinawa Peru Seiryu Eisa Kai Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don (event)

Megumi Mizutani, who connects the sister city relationship between California and Japan

Japanese people who "don't know about Japan" In October 2023, when I participated in a workshop or…

Keiko Fukuda • Feb. 5, 2024

California California-Japan Sister Cities Network (organization) culture international relations Japan Japanese culture Kyushu Megumi Mizutani Saga Prefecture Sebastopol sister cities Takeo (city) United States U.S.-Japan relations

Susan Miyagi McCormac Leads JapanCulture•NYC: Sharing Her Passion for Japanese Culture and Japanese Life in New York City

As the founder and editor-in-chief of JapanCulture•NYC, an English-language resource for Japanese…

Karen Kawaguchi • Aug. 21, 2023

culture JapanCulture•NYC (website) Japanese culture New York (state) North Carolina Okinawans Susan Miyagi McCormac United States

Nikkei Chronicles #12—Growing Up Nikkei: Connecting with Our Heritage

To Be Nikkei

My obaachan was only seven years old when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. T…

Kayla Kamei • Aug. 11, 2023

culture Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture identity Japan Japanese culture World War II

Being Blasian

In the midst of the global pandemic, Sascha Koki discovered something unexpected—her curls. Sascha,…

Summer Nakaishi • Feb. 14, 2023

Asians Black people Blasians culture hapa Hawai'i identity Japan racially mixed people Sascha Koki United States

Mercedes Luna: Thriving Within Her Rich Heritage - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Your father passed away in 2011 and left a huge legacy. Tell us about him. My fa…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • Jan. 31, 2023

Alaska American Indians culture Filipinos generations indigenous peoples Japanese museums Native Americans Seattle Tlingit Indians United States Washington Wing Luke Museum Yonsei

Mercedes Luna: Thriving Within Her Rich Heritage - Part 1

Mercedes Luna has come full circle, returning to work for the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacif…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • Jan. 30, 2023

Alaska American Indians culture Filipinos generations indigenous peoples Japanese museums Native Americans Seattle Tlingit Indians United States Washington Wing Luke Museum Yonsei

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