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9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Through The Opera Glasses
The California sun was bright as Erin strolled through the streets of Little Tokyo, too lost in wor…

Madeline Thach • June 24, 2022

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California fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
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9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Rejuvenation
-10 years ago- This is my secret. No, it's a secret between you and me. There is a wall in Spri…

Miyuki Kokubu • June 17, 2022

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California fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
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9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
J is for Junichiro
“Juni, you’ve been fighting again.” Junichiro Nakashima hoped to hide his hands …

George Cooksey • June 10, 2022

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California fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
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9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Tell me
I’m beautiful. I grew up with Dad telling me I was the prettiest in the world, so I knew tha…

Nao Mutsuki • June 3, 2022

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California fiction hapa Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles racially mixed people United States
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9th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest
Tori
The last time I was here, the sakura were in bloom. I came to Little Tokyo to visit my grandmother…

Xueyou Wang • May 27, 2022

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California fiction Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest (series) Little Tokyo Los Angeles United States
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 40: Four sisters heading for Japan
The four Uchiyama sisters were always together. As children, they played house in their grandmother…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • March 9, 2022

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 39 (Part 2) What Japan Gave Me
Read the first part >> Around 6pm that day, Sumie's mother returned home from work. "…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Jan. 17, 2022

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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Ruth Ozeki’s Book of Compassion and Empathy
During the book tour for A Tale for the Time Being, author Ruth Ozeki shared how her ch…

Kelly Fleck • Dec. 24, 2021

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authors fiction Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form and Emptiness (book) writers
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Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Twelve—The Reveal
I was familiar with the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. It was where my ex, Stewart, taught some a…

Naomi Hirahara • Nov. 4, 2021

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California fiction Naomi Hirahara Pasadena United States
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Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Eleven—Sparkling Sea
I stood in front of the open storage unit, my hands on my hips. I felt like I was an Olympic athlet…

Naomi Hirahara • Oct. 4, 2021

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fiction Kenji C. Liu literature Morio Hayashida Naomi Hirahara poetry
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