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Nima-kai Hinamatsuri Traditions
Feb. 15, 2021
editor
March 3rd is celebrated annually in Japan and in Nikkei communities around the world as Hinamatsuri (Girl’s Day). Literally translated as “doll festival,” families with young daughters celebrate this event by displaying hina-ningyo, specia…
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Incarceration Years: Lordsburg/Santa Fe, Seagoville, Amache Camp Photos and DOJ Documents
Dec. 22, 2006
mhomma
Homma Family Photos of Amache and Wada Family DOJ documents. Rev. Masahiko Wada was an American Baptist minister for First Baptist Church, Garden Grove, Terminal Island Baptist Mission, Moneta / Gardena Valley Baptist Church (1929-1940) a…
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Amache Stories and Memories
July 12, 2017
mhomma
A collection of some of the 10,000 stories from the WW2 Japanese Internment Center known as Amache. Stay tuned for future articles and memories by Amacheans, their descendants and those helping to preserve the Amache memories. Please conta…
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"Transpacific Borderlands" Artist Profiles
Sept. 19, 2017
JANM
Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo examines the experiences of artists of Japanese ancestry born, raised, or living in either Latin America or predominantly Latin America…
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Discover Nikkei visits Tozan Farm
Jan. 18, 2009
mhijb
On September 20, 2008, Discover Nikkei, together with its Brazilian affiliates - Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil and the Associação Brasileira de Estudos Japoneses - held the symposium "100 Years of Japanese Immigration: Th…
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August 2008 Research Group Survey
Nov. 14, 2008
team_nikkei_usa
In August 2008, I went to Hawaii and Los Angeles for research. In Hawaii, I visited a Japanese farm at a Kona coffee plantation. Afterwards, I also visited a Japanese graveyard. In Los Angeles, I gave a lecture at the Pasadena Seminar on h…
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Japanese immigration ships in Brazil
July 24, 2007
mhijb
For decades, Japanese immigration to Brazil was carried out by sea, a two-month journey to distant Brazil. In this collection, the Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil displays its collection of photographs of the ships that…
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Japanese Gardens in Latin America
June 21, 2007
yn
I have collected some photos of Japanese gardens in Latin America.
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Peru: From the Photograph Book of Overseas Affairs (1931)
March 30, 2007
yn
This is a collection of photos of immigrants to Peru, excerpted from "Photographic Album of Overseas Affairs in Commemoration of the Enthronement of the Emperor" (Kanmon High School of Dressmaking, 1931). Peru is the second most populated …
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