Born and raised in Hawaii Kai, HI. 5th Generation (Go-sei). Living in LA for now. Side note: my father is a Director at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii and Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce.

I am a U.S. raised sansei, first son of Kibei-nisei parents (Tsugu and Kazuko [maiden name Tanji]) whose ancestry is from Fukushima-ken. I have an older sister and younger brother. Both parents grew up in the old historic Shinobu-gun area, now part of the city of Fukushima. Dad was born in California early in the Taisho era; mom was born in California early in the Showa era. It still is an unfulfilled dream of mine to visit Japan, especially the region where my relatives came from. My fluency is not very high; I can read and write through the end of third grade level Japanese, though that level of fluency doesn't suffice for a newspaper. As such, fluency in standard Japanese seems to lag behind what I have heard in dialect at home.

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Nikkei no minasama konnichiwa!

i want to know more of japan that my grandma left. i want to be part of it.

Sansei, originally from Hawaii

Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he retired in 2008 as the director of the Center for Oral and Public History. Between 2001 and 2005, he served as Senior Historian at the Japanese American National Museum.