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Revisiting Summer of the Big Bachi Twenty Years Later

2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of Naomi Hirahara’s novel, Summer of the Big Bachi. This kic…

Lauren Rise Masuda • Dec. 30, 2024

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Summer of the Big Bachi: Naomi Hirahara’s Japanese American Mystery

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Naomi Hirahara’s first Mas Arai novel, Summer of the Big B…

Darryl Mori • Dec. 30, 2024

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A Chilling Nikkei Detective Thriller: Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda

Anchorage Homicide Detective DeHavilland Beans looks forward to starting every morning with coffee …

Darryl Mori • Dec. 16, 2024

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Dekasegi Story

Episode 48 Mai-chan's Dream

Mai-chan is in the third grade of elementary school. Her father, Lucas, came to Japan from Brazil w…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Dec. 10, 2024

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Pulling a Fast one? E.V. Cunningham and the Masuto Mysteries

Some time ago, I published a column in Nichi Bei News discussing writer Len Zinberg, who wrote a sh…

Greg Robinson • Dec. 5, 2024

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #6 of the Worst: "Malpractice!!..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Sept. 28, 2024

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Gene Oishi—A Memoir of a Friend

Gene Oishi’s passing draws the curtain on a unique Japanese American life. I will leave it to other…

Greg Robinson • Aug. 15, 2024

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Dekasegi Story

Episode 47 (Part II): “I want to go back, but I can't...”

Lea part I Eidi had returned a week ago, but the family still felt uncomfortable interacting with …

• July 23, 2024

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11th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Am I a Stranger or a Foreigner?

It has been about 20 years since people in Japan became familiar with American Major League Basebal…

Koh Hirano • July 1, 2024

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11th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Dreaming in Lil' Tokyo

There was nobody left to tell us what they meant; the mysterious signs, with those bold ink strokes…

Pablo Matias Hernandez Martinez • June 24, 2024

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