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Los Angeles, California, United States of America Nima since 2005 last login 1 day ago
Roberto Tokunaga @roberto_tokunaga

Argentian-Japanese from La Plata (Argentina). Living in Sapporo (Japan) since 1996. Criminalist (BA@UBA), Ergonomics (M.Sc.&Ph.D.@HOKUDAI), Former Police Inspector (@Provincia de Buenos Aires), Former Senior Researcher (@CERI), Freelance Consultant, and President of Argentinian Nikkei Association in Hokkaido.

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan Nima since 2022 last login 1 day ago
@kjgirl60

Nima since 2025 last login 1 day ago
@Masaji

*Sansei *Born in Toronto *Grandparents are from Shiga and Kumamoto kens* Families were interned in Kaslo, Bayfarm and on a Manitoba beet farm * Lived in Sendai, Japan from 1994 to 2004 * Teacher in Brampton, ON * Aikidoka * Writer for the Nikkei Voice for close to 20 years * Writer of "Canadian Nikkei series" which aims at preserving Canadian Nikkei stories. Future of the community? It depends on how successful we are in engaging our youth. The University of Victoria's (BC) Landscapes of Injustice project is a good one.... gambatte kudasai!

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Nima since 2008 last login 2 days ago
@ngaiomarsh98

Nima since 2025 last login 2 days ago
Choppy Choppy @NeverKnowsBest

Just a little tree chopper.

Texas, United States of America Nima since 2022 last login 2 days ago
@ShinyZenAnna

Nima since 2025 last login 3 days ago
@bjdoi

I'm looking for information anything about my grandfather his name was Terri Takashi Doi he's been mentioned in the magazine few times I never met anyone in our family on his side he never mentioned it or if anyone who knows him please email me back he was a very Honorable man ..

Nima since 2025 last login 3 days ago
@fairplayapp

Nima since 2025 last login 4 days ago
Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda @vkm

I’m a Yonsei, occasional artist and writer, and full-time Digital Program Manager at the Japanese American National Museum. I was born in Los Angeles and have lived in Southern California almost my entire life. I am fluent in English, can understand about 80% of conversational Japanese, and don’t know any Spanish or Portuguese (although after having worked on Discover Nikkei for so long, would like to learn someday). I love working in Little Tokyo and living in Gardena. Both areas give me wonderful access to Japanese/Nikkei food, community, and culture. I bowl in a Nikkei league once a week, and spend my free time eating, sleeping, playing on my phone and computer, rooting for the Dodgers, watching TV and reading, spending time with family and friends, and traveling. I love working on Discover Nikkei and learning about so many different Nikkei experiences around the world!

Gardena, California, United States of America Nima since 2005 last login 4 days ago
@Highwayman

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Retired from both the U.S Air Force and local government. A Sansei whose parents were incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming (father) and Rohwer, Arkansas (mother).

California, United States of America Nima since 2021 last login 4 days ago
@hirookurano

Nima since 2025 last login 5 days ago
@heriete

Nima since 2017 last login 5 days ago
@june

Volunteer for Discover Nikkei. Content creator on Twitch [twitch.tv/juniepat] & YouTube [youtube.com/c/JuniepatTV].

California, United States of America Nima since 2009 last login 1 week ago
@yn

A Japanese who lives in Los Angeles. Project manager for the Discover Nikkei Web site at the Japanese American National Museum.

California, United States of America Nima since 2005 last login 1 week ago
@Vibrant_Finance

Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago
Emi Yamasaki @ety

Emi Yamasaki is an incoming graduate student pursuing a Master's in Higher Education and Student Affairs at the University of Connecticut (UConn). A 3rd/4th/5th generation Japanese-American born and raised in the SF Bay Area but with ties to Southern California, Hawaii, and Japan, Emi is constantly learning about different facets of her complex identity. She hopes to build the confidence to one day write and submit a story and share some of her many experiences as a Nikkei growing up in America. 

Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago
@rebecasilviabks @shiruvatakaki

Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico, Mexico Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago
@rebecasilviabks @rebecatakagi

Nikkei in Mexico

Mexico Nima since 2021 last login 1 week ago
@yamakoshic

Nima since 2022 last login 1 week ago
Ava Sakura @sakurava

Writer by day, researcher by night. I'm a Gosei studying in the Greater Toronto Area and Assistant Editor for Discover Nikkei. Using interesting stories to make learning accessible is my passion.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago
@wanderlea

Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago
@DPerley

Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago
@nirvanayogaschool

Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago
@oshirokc

Nima since 2025 last login 1 week ago

Nima of the Month

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Ava Sakura @sakurava

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Ava Sakura is a Gosei living in the Greater Toronto Area and an undergraduate at Humber College, where she studies writing. Though she grew up knowing very little about her Japanese heritage, a foray into her family’s genealogy led her down a rabbit hole about Japanese Canadian history and public education in Ontario. Since then, Japanese Canadian history has become a major focus of her work. Ava’s writing on Japanese Canadian heritage won an Excellence in Storytelling award earlier this year.

Ava is currently a volunteer Assistant Editor with Discover Nikkei, where she is gaining experience with many aspects of our project and writing a series on her journey through her Japanese Canadian heritage. Stay tuned as we publish her articles over the next few months! Ava is also keeping busy this summer as Heritage Research and Collections Assistant at Toronto’s Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.

How did you learn about Discover Nikkei? Why did you decide to become a volunteer?

In the third year of my writing degree, I did a deep dive into Japanese Canadian history. I learned a lot through scholarly writing and books, but even more through Canadian Discover Nikkei writers, whose stories extended past history books and academic papers into real, tangible experiences. The next logical step was to dive into this community through writing and reading, and as a volunteer, I get to do both!

Why is it important to you to share Japanese Canadian history with a wider audience?

It’s important to me that when someone wonders why we don’t have a Little Tokyo, they think about it more deeply than brushing it off as a coincidence. We’re often told that Canada’s one of the most diverse and inclusive countries in the world, but we don’t look back on what Canada once was, what it was founded on, or how we got here. The echoes of Japanese Canadian internment ring loudly in the scattered communities across the country, in our elders’ reluctance to tell their stories, and in the Yonsei and Gosei left with little family history to cling to. Knowing where they originated from is just as crucial as hearing them.

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*The term “Nima” comes from combining Nikkei and nakama (Japanese for “colleagues”, or “fellows”, or “circle”).
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Nikkei Family 2: Remembering Roots, Leaving Legacies
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