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As the end of the year approaches, the East Asian quarter of São Paolo is lively. Signs in the shop windows of Japanese food supply …
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Our memories are filled with sad and happy landscapes that speak to each other. I asked some Nikkei to share their childhood memories, Christmas holiday …
In Japan, I grew up in a so-called “nuclear family”—a family that consisted of a father and a mother and me, their only child. Both …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “My End-O-Year Food Timeline”… Check back every weekend for subsequent …
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All parents ruminate on what to name their child. They go through baby-naming books. Suggestions from family and friends. Fads of the day. Boy, girl, …
My mother, Kinuko Saito, was holding me in her arms as we left Japan. I was six months old when we embarked on a military …
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A little belated, but shinnen akemashite omedeto! Of course, here in the JA community, January 1 is only the beginning of the New Year’s season, …
“On Christmas Day, we’ll have Brazilian dishes, and on Oshogatsu1 we’ll have the Japanese New Year’s traditional foods. We Nikkei can enjoy twice as many …
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Akemashita Omedetou. Xin Nian Kuai Le. Happy New Year & Auld Lang Syne. This is how we welcome the new year in our Japanese, Chinese, and Irish American …
At home, I speak Japanese. At school, I speak English. And at times, I speak both. The two languages are thrown in a verbal potpourri …
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