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Every team across Canada dreams about winning it all, and in 2018, Richmond’s Seafair Islanders Bantam hockey club’s young U-15 (ages 13-14) finished the season …
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Melanie Camille Michiko Carrié, the newly crowned Cherry Blossom Festival queen, has lived in places others have only dreamed of — and in less than …
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What does it mean to be hapa? Interdisciplinary artist Paul Kikuchi has been thinking about that question a lot lately as he prepares to run …
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“I begin to see the peculiar tragedy of the Nisei as that of a generation of transition accepted neither by the Japanese nor by America. …
Some years ago, an old friend stopped in L.A. for her summer job, driving across the country in a classic car to promote a vacation …
This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a …
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Who does “Nikkeijin” refer to? Answering this question is not easy. Today they are defined as “Japanese immigrants who have moved overseas with the intention …
How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how invested …
Read Part 1 >> Connected to Japanese Society and Culture Many Shin-Nisei (children of post war Japanese immigrants) on the U.S. continent do not identify …
Slideshow above: The few remaining urban enclaves of Japanese American culture and identity. Have you ever thought about what it means to identify as Japanese …
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