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John Azama: The Peruvian Nikkei Who Revitalized Ryukyu Damashii, the Eisa Group of Dallas-Fort Worth
“I was a very shy child,” he confesses, preferring to be at the back of the group durin…

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato • Feb. 16, 2024

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bicultural identity biculturalism communities Dallas eisa (dance) folk dances generations identity Japan Japanese American communities Japanese Americans Japanese Peruvians John Azama Lima music Okinawa Okinawans Peru Ryukyu Damashii (performance group) singers Texas Uchinanchu United States Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don (event) Yonsei
bicultural identity biculturalism communities Dallas eisa (dance) folk dances generations identity Japan Japanese American communities Japanese Americans Japanese Peruvians John Azama Lima music Okinawa Okinawans Peru Ryukyu Damashii (performance group) singers Texas Uchinanchu United States Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don (event) Yonsei
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Power of Our Stories
New Podcast Series Explores the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration— Q&A with the Oral History Center’s Shanna Farrell
When oral historian Shanna Farrell began interviewing descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerate…

Anne Brice • Feb. 9, 2024

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Berkeley California From Generation to Generation (podcast) generational trauma healing identity imprisonment incarceration Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives (project) Japanese Americans Oral History Center (UC Berkeley) podcasts Shanna Farrell The Berkeley Remix (podcast) United States universities University of California, Berkeley World War II
Berkeley California From Generation to Generation (podcast) generational trauma healing identity imprisonment incarceration Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives (project) Japanese Americans Oral History Center (UC Berkeley) podcasts Shanna Farrell The Berkeley Remix (podcast) United States universities University of California, Berkeley World War II
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Kanon Shambora on the Making of Print Garden
Artist-in-residence Kanon Shambora used her time at Densho to explore the roots of Japanese America…

Kanon Shambora • Jan. 25, 2024

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agriculture art artist-in-residence programs artists Densho education immigrants immigration Japanese Americans Kanon Shambora migration teachers teaching World War II camps
agriculture art artist-in-residence programs artists Densho education immigrants immigration Japanese Americans Kanon Shambora migration teachers teaching World War II camps
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Power of Our Stories
The Power of Storytelling: Introducing the Chasing Cherry Blossoms Podcast — Part 2
Read Part 1 >> Throughout the making of this podcast series, have you gained more insig…

Emily Hood • Jan. 17, 2024

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Catherine Jie Baxter Chasing Cherry Blossoms (podcast) heritage identity Japanese Americans Reina Higashitani storytelling Tinnley Sawan Subsin
Catherine Jie Baxter Chasing Cherry Blossoms (podcast) heritage identity Japanese Americans Reina Higashitani storytelling Tinnley Sawan Subsin
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Power of Our Stories
The Power of Storytelling: Introducing the Chasing Cherry Blossoms Podcast — Part 1
The history of the Japanese and their descendants in America stretches back to the 19th century, fo…

Emily Hood • Jan. 16, 2024

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Catherine Jie Baxter Chasing Cherry Blossoms (podcast) heritage identity Japanese Americans Reina Higashitani storytelling Tinnley Sawan Subsin
Catherine Jie Baxter Chasing Cherry Blossoms (podcast) heritage identity Japanese Americans Reina Higashitani storytelling Tinnley Sawan Subsin
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Dekasegi Story
Episode 45: I'm glad Fujiko is Japanese!
The Ozaki family was a large one. The eldest and second sons were married and lived together with t…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Jan. 16, 2024

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Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers identity Japan Japanese Brazilians Nikkei in Japan
Brazil dekasegi fiction foreign workers identity Japan Japanese Brazilians Nikkei in Japan
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Bringing seaweed candy to the global market — New York-born, Japan-raised Alyssa Miki
"Bringing the best of Japan to the world" At an event held at the official residence of …

Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 8, 2024

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Alissa Miki business Cashi Cake (firm) economics food identity Japan Kim Kardashian management Misaky Tokyo (brand) New York (state) United States
Alissa Miki business Cashi Cake (firm) economics food identity Japan Kim Kardashian management Misaky Tokyo (brand) New York (state) United States
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On Nikkei
Part 41 (part 3) Interview with Christine Piper, author with Japanese and Australian roots — Family roots and identity
Read Part 2 >> Identity is created from within --Could you tell us more about your family r…

Ryusuke Kawai • Jan. 5, 2024

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Australians Christine Piper genealogy identity Japanese racially mixed people
Australians Christine Piper genealogy identity Japanese racially mixed people
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Sow in Japan, harvest in Peru
Jorge Vargas Tsuruda's first experience in Japan was amazing. He was a teenager (still in schoo…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Nov. 23, 2023

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dekasegi foreign workers identity Japan Nikkei in Japan Peru
dekasegi foreign workers identity Japan Nikkei in Japan Peru
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Unlocking Family Mysteries
Ever since I could remember, a large, colorful tapestry of the Great Torii of Miyajima was displaye…

Alden M. Hayashi • Nov. 22, 2023

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families Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture identity Japan
families Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture identity Japan
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