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Read Part 3 >> Writing on the Heart Thanks to the interviews with her consociates, Dr. Arai found numerous rituals, used by the interviewees, on …
Read Part 2 >> Bringing Zen Home —This book took root, Arai says, on December 18, 1996, the day my mother died. After months of listening to …
Read Part 1 >> Arai’s circuitous route to find the Buddha began at Kalamazoo, a “Christian-centered college,” where her major interest became Ethics. Coming from a …
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“In the heart of every human being there is a quest for truth, a quest for justice, a quest for peace, a quest for love, …
an homage for Yuri… — You were the first stamp on the letter for the least likely to receive the last one to forget a face first …
In City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, author Professor Valerie Matsumoto has opened a time capsule in the vaults of American …
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Attention Single Women!!”… Check back every weekend for subsequent entries…
Be strong, be gentle, be beautiful. In judo you need strength of mind, body, and soul. I don’t mean beauty in the external sense. A …
In the 2011 PAN-JAPAN special issue NEGLECTED LEGACIES: Japanese American Women and the Redress/Reparations Movement, guest editor Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, an Asian American studies professor …
Yukiko Furuta was not a picture bride and she did not remember meeting any picture brides in the area. Her marriage was arranged by family …
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