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My name is Aiko. I was born to a Costa Rican mother and a Japanese father. People often ask me, “And your Spanish name is?” …
Thirty years ago, much to my delight, two events occurred which served to encapsulate my bicultural, hapa heritage. I am the daughter of a Japanese …
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Rear Part 2 >> Touring my own country, in another country I’ve said in previous articles that I don’t feel I belong in this country, …
One day in the early 1980s, my Japanese mother took my sister and me to an International District gift shop. A middle-aged Japanese American man …
Read Part 1 >> In June a friend invited me to join her and other members of the Japanese Student Association (JSA) of Seattle University …
Hapa, in Hawaiian, means “part” or “mixed.” It’s typically used to describe a person of Asian or Pacific Islander descent. I heard the word on …
Last month, I worked at Kinokuniya Bookstore’s booth at Anime Expo for the second year in a row. For two days, I stood in front …
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I was the youngest of a large family. When I was born, my parents were already old enough to be grandparents. So I grew up …
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Kyle Honma is a volunteer of the Hirasaki National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum. He started volunteering at the museum because of …
I love those parts that seem incompatible but that, in a person, come together. During my first week of college, I met a guy who, …
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