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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 …
Celebrating traditional Japanese New Years with family
Roy Hirabayashi January 26, 2005
I, naturally, because my parents were so much involved in the Japanese culture, because that’s …
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 …
Japanese Americans brought up to deny their roots
Vince Ota September 12, 2003
I have this kind of underline riff that I believe almost all Japanese Americans are …
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 …
Traditional Japanese events for Japanese Americans (Japanese)
Yumi Matsubara March 1, 2007
(Japanese) To me, Nikkei people are Americans, and I feel like they don’t know much …
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