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New Year's food
Jane Aiko Yamano September 3, 2003
And I think that the Japanese Americans eat more Japanese food than the Japanese people …
Food growing up
Wayne Shigeto Yokoyama November 13, 2003
My parents spoke Japanese to each other. My mother would speak English sentences with Japanese …
Learning American cooking
Peggie Nishimura Bain September 15-17, 2004
There was a neighbor by the name of McDonalds, Mrs. McDonald was teaching us how …
Little contact with Asians growing up on the east coast
Vince Ota September 12, 2003
By the time I was about 9 or 10, I would go out every summer …
Memories of family dinners
Margaret Oda May 31, 2006
My dad had made this huge round table for dinner, you know, that we all …
Symbolic New Year’s foods prepared from scratch
Margaret Oda May 31, 2006
New Year was a special event. Every New Year’s—and I still do that myself. I …
Suffering in World War II (Spanish)
Luis Yamada September 18, 2006
(Spanish) So much suffering, so much bad blood, hunger, everything bad that could be found …
Appreciation of Japanese food
Peter Mizuki November 11, 2003
I think, mainly, it’s like the whole general atmosphere. I never…you don’t stand out here. …
Childhood shame for being Nikkei in Enumclaw, Washington
William Marutani August 27, 1998
Oh, I think there was a great deal of shame, not justified shame. I recall …
What Makes Japanese Cooking In Peru Interesting (Japanese)
Toshiro Konishi April 18, 2007
(Japanese) To begin with, there was no true Japanese cuisine. That’s the first point. The …
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