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Gwen Muranaka’s weekly cartoon “Noodles” appears in The Japan Times, and occasionally in The Rafu Shimpo. The cartoons feature a Japanese American woman and her dog, presenting a Nikkei view of life in Japan.
In this cartoon, they enjoy their local Obon.
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*This article was originally published on The Rafu Shimpo on July 16 2014.
© 2014 Gwen Muranaka
Gwen Muranaka, Senior Editor, has been with The Rafu Shimpo since 2001. Prior to that, she worked in Tokyo at the Japan Times where she still contributes the weekly cartoon “Noodles.” She attended UCLA where she received a BA in English literature and also studied one year at Waseda University. Muranaka started in community newspapers as assistant editor at the Pacific Citizen.
Updated March 2021
* Discover Nikkei is a project of the Japanese American National Museum, made possible through the generous support of The Nippon Foundation
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