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Ministers, Dry Cleaners, Farmers, and Gardeners: The Original Taiko Drummers in the Continental United States—Part 1
From somewhere in the crowd of dancers, the sound of a large taiko (drum) echoes through the summer…

Wynn Kiyama • May 8, 2024

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bon dance Buddhism communities continental U.S. dance drum Obon religions taiko
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A vision, a path
Opening roads What was a dream is today a reality. The footprints well left on the paths of life a…

Graciela Nakachi Morimoto • May 7, 2024

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communities generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Masao Nakachi migration Peru Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center Peruvian Japanese Polyclinic physicians Ryoichi Jinnai Recreational Center
communities generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Masao Nakachi migration Peru Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center Peruvian Japanese Polyclinic physicians Ryoichi Jinnai Recreational Center
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Same Place, New Face: 30 Years of Mr. Ramen
Little Tokyo celebrates 140 years this year. As the second-oldest neighborhood in Los Angeles, Litt…

Megan Yasuda • May 7, 2024

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business California communities economics families food gentrification Japanese food Little Tokyo Los Angeles management Mr. Ramen (restaurant) noodles ramen restaurants small business United States urban renewal
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Who Was The First Japanese Immigrant to Canada?
Kisuke Mikuni—The First Documented Immigrant
When Sumio Ishidate wrote about early Victoria in 1909, he had claimed, “In the autumn of t…

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 28, 2024

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immigrants immigration Japanese Canadians Kisuke Mikuni migration
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Who Was The First Japanese Immigrant to Canada?
Tomekichi Homma (Part 2) — Early Activist
Read Part 1 (Tomekichi Homma) >> What did the village of Steveston look like in the 1880s wh…

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 22, 2024

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British Columbia Canada generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration naturalized citizen Steveston Tomekichi Homma
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Who Was The First Japanese Immigrant to Canada?
Tomekichi Homma (Part 1) — Early Activist
If Nagano did not arrive in 1877, who might have been the first immigrant from Japan to put …

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 21, 2024

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British Columbia Canada elections generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration naturalized citizen political science Steveston Tomekichi Homma voting
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We Are Not Strangers—A Story of a Sephardic Jew and His Japanese American Neighbor
Japanese Americans have heard about how non-Japanese helped some JA families during World War II. O…

Pamela A. Okano • April 19, 2024

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communities fiction graphic novels Jews Josh Tuininga Seattle United States Washington We are Not Strangers (book) World War II
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 47 (Part 1) "I want to go home, but I can't"
Eiji, the eldest son of two older sisters, was told by his parents to become a doctor in the future…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • April 18, 2024

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Brazil dekasegi families fiction foreign workers Japan Nikkei in Japan
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“LA Rising” in Little Tokyo with Robert Vargas
On March 27, 2024, Robert Vargas’ newest mural, “LA Rising,” was unveiled in the …

Kristopher Kato • April 16, 2024

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artists baseball baseball fields Boyle Heights California communities Hispanic LA Rising (mural) Little Tokyo Los Angeles Los Angeles Dodgers Miyako Hotel Los Angeles muralists painters Robert Vargas Shohei Ohtani United States
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Utah Judicial Giant Raymond Uno Has Died at 93
Incarcerated as a boy in Heart Mountain, he also served as JACL national president. Raymond Sonj…

Pacific Citizen • April 9, 2024

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armed forces GI Bill Japanese American Citizens League judges Korean war Military Intelligence Service obituaries Raymond Uno retired military personnel Salt Lake City United States U.S. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 Utah veterans World War II
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