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70th Anniversary of the Japanese American/Japanese Canadian Internment: Redress, Remember, Relate – Contrasting the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Internment Experiences in Washington D.C. - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> In contrast to Kawakami and Minami’s discussions that focused on the fact that it was the incremental gains of specific legal victories …

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70th Anniversary of the Japanese American/Japanese Canadian Internment: Redress, Remember, Relate – Contrasting the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Internment Experiences in Washington D.C. - Part 1

On November 15, I travelled to Washington D.C. to appear in a panel assembled to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese American and Japanese …

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Yellow Soul

“There are many stories untold. Some are lost. Others will come up in the future.” (Excerpt from “Nodas in America” short story, Yokohama, California by …

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Nikkei View

Japanese Americans should follow Japan news

Over the years, I’ve been surprised that many Japanese Americans aren’t interested in Japan or even visiting Japan, mostly because they’re embarrassed that they don’t …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 10 of 10

Read Part 9 >> CONCLUSION: SAME HOMELAND, DIFFERENT HOMECOMINGS When I was conducting participant observation among Japanese Brazilian workers at Toyama factory in Japan, I was wearing …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 9 of 10

Read Part 8 >> Because of their relatively positive socio-occupational and ethnic reception in Japan, none of my Japanese American informants developed negative sentiments toward Japanese …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 8 of 10

Read Part 7 >> The Japanese Americans: A Broadening of Ethnic Consciousness Because the Japanese Americans have a much more favorable ethnic homecoming, they do not react …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 7 of 10

Read Part 6 >> The social alienation that Japanese Brazilian ethnic return migrants experience in Japan therefore completely undermines their previously favorable images of and nostalgic …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 6 of 10

Read Part 5 >> DIASPORIC HOMECOMINGS AND ETHNIC IDENTITY: NATIONALIST VERSUS TRANSNATIONAL  Because the Japanese Brazilians and Americans feel a certain nostalgic, emotional attachment to their ancestral …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 5 of 10

Read Part 4 >> The global prominence of the United States has also created another, less apparent transnational cultural affinity between Japan and the United States: …