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Asian American Studies 101: How I Learned Grandpa Was a Badass!

For whatever “academic inadequacies” the fledgling ethnic studies was accused of back i…

Mary Uyematsu Kao • Sept. 14, 2022

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Mitch Homma: Preserving and Sharing Family History

Mitch Homma, a 3rd generation Japanese American, grew up and still lives in Southern California. He…

Karen Kawaguchi • Aug. 9, 2022

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Inspire Forward: Nikkei Heroes Under 30

Cole Kawana: JANM and the Power of Artificial Intelligence

“A snapshot of human memory.” That’s what 23-year-old Cole Kawana likes …

Kyra Karatsu • Jan. 24, 2022

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

111 Years of the Japanese Community in Uruguay - Part 2: Floriculture, the Connection with Buenos Aires, and the Next Generation of Japanese Uruguayans

Read Part 1 >> The industry in which Japanese people in Uruguay were most often engaged was f…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Oct. 29, 2021

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

111 Years of History of the Japanese Community in Uruguay - Part 1: Characteristics of Japanese Migration

Uruguay (official name: Oriental Republic of Uruguay) is a small country in South America with an a…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • Oct. 28, 2021

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #1000 + Years of War: "Serious Ordnance..."

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

Neal Yamamoto • Aug. 7, 2021

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Book review: Masumi Izumi, "Migration and Movements of Japanese Canadians: The Unknown History of Japanese People's Transnational Lives"

The Japanese film "Asahi in Vancouver," released in 2014, depicts the exploits of the &qu…

Yuko Konno • June 23, 2021

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history Masumi Izumi reviews The Japanese Canadian Movement (book)

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The man who collected the records of the first generation: Following in the footsteps of Shinichi Kato

Part 3: Traveling across the US to visit first generation Japanese

"A Hundred Years of Japanese Americans in the United States" (published in December 1961)…

Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 11, 2020

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Bridging Historical Traditions

In recent years historians have increasingly moved away from writing about the history of a single …

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Oct. 12, 2020

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Keywords For Being Nikkei In A Moment of Racial Reckoning

“I recognized that the heartbeat, historically, of racism, has been denial.” —…

Tamiko Nimura • July 15, 2020

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