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Nation of Birds What if our only home were the air And our wings flapping through it? And time the space we lived in And …
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“You have to keep changing, because what has happened and what you have been a part of is no longer there. The ideas that we …
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I want to thank the author of this study for putting a name to the sense of purpose I felt in writing an essay for …
November 10, 1983, was a big day for Fred T. Korematsu and his legal team. Ten months after filing a legal petition on Fred’s behalf, …
Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Naomi Hirahara is a writer with a love of Japanese American history. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in international …
S. Floyd Mori is the former National Executive Director/CEO of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), current president of the Asian Pacific American Institute for …
A children’s book about a tiny ninja girl—do I need to say anything else? There are tiny watercolor ninjas hiding among cherry blossoms and scaling …
While perusing this beautiful and bountiful 470-page tome affording its lucky readers a temporal, spatial, and sociocultural journey relative to San Jose’s Japantown, I reflected …
During a recent trip to San Francisco to attend the annual conference of the Asian American Journalists Association, I squeezed in two readings from the …
Read Part 1 >> Rumpus: Besides the monsters, it seems like a lot of people in your comics are Asian American or Japanese American based …
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