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The grandfather of my heart will always be my father’s father, Grandfather Araki (born a Kaneda but taking the Araki name as a yoshi), whom …
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“No one can take away what you’ve studied” was or still is a sentence repeated to exhaustion to children by generations of parents of Japanese …
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If you’re into strong women who like to color outside the lines and aren’t afraid to take what’s theirs, then you came to the right …
Read Part 1 >> Cultural Heritage and Assimilation The names that immigrant parents select for their American-born children say something about culture, customs, hopes, and …
Is it Eisenhauer or Eisenhower? Gonzalez or Gonzales? Yasuzo or Yasudo? Whether they are misspellings, attempts at assimilation, or expressions of individualism, the variations in …
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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 …
Whenever you hear of Mio, a poor, small fishing village south-east of Osaka in Wakayama-ken, the name ‘Amerika Mura’ comes to mind. To the villagers, …
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Read Part 2 >> In each of the previous chapters, we have seen young Yoshiko get a few tastes of the real political world around …
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Most books about Japanese Americans focus on the West Coast because that’s where Japanese first arrived and settled on the US mainland. So few well-known …
Read Part 1 >> “Fengtian was my castle of dreams,” we heard Yoshiko say in our previous chapter, and she had myriad reasons to feel …
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