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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

Diminishing for No One…

This month’s theme is derived directly from the first poem here from Patrick Shiroishi, a dynamic m…

Patrick Shiroishi +1 • April 17, 2025

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Surging

It’s hard to believe that this month we celebrate the 100th edition of Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry c…

Richard Hamasaki +2 • March 20, 2025

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The Sword and the Typewriter: The Life and Times of Hydesaburo Ohashi

Chapter 2—A Writer in Boston

Read Chapter 1 As an enterprising editor of Harvard Illustrated, England sent a copy of the Novemb…

Aaron Cohen • Feb. 24, 2025

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

No Murallas

Tkaronto/Toronto, Ontario-based writer-artist Erica Isomura lends us a moment of action captured in…

Erica Isomura +1 • Feb. 20, 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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The Great Connector: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Contributions to Japanese American Life

This week, Professor Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is celebrating a big birthday. She has not only disting…

Greg Robinson • Dec. 26, 2024

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Belonging

As we come into the end of 2024, I wanted to share a piece I wrote as a reflection of the pilgrimag…

Nikkei Progressives +1 • Dec. 19, 2024

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

(R)evolving

For this month, we are so grateful to present poetry in three languages—Portuguese, Japanese, and E…

Liana Nakamura +1 • Nov. 28, 2024

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