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Read Part 3 >> It was late in the afternoon, almost five o’clock, when Dad and I dropped off Tanaka-san and Lynne, so I called …
Read Part 2 >> That Saturday, when I arrived at my parents’ house to pick up Dad, he was already sitting outside, waiting for me …
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Read Part 5 >> As Dean of the School of Education at Nagoya University what are your responsibilities? You travel a lot to the US and …
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What becomes clear after meeting Will Ireton is that there is more to him than meets the eye. Much more. In his eighth year as …
Read Part 1 >> Today, talk of his poker gang’s tanomoshi has made Dad uncharacteristically nostalgic, prompting him to reminisce about this group of seven …
Read Part 4 >> I remember well when I first went to Japan in the '90s and how that changed how I regarded myself as a …
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The Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight calls JANM’s exhibition, Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market, “a captivating theater of dreams.” The virtual reality experience depicts …
Author’s note: My late Nisei father did indeed have a poker gang of his best friends who would meet monthly, always on a Saturday night, …
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インターネットラジオに 子どもたちを学校に送っていく朝の時間帯、車内で聞いていたのはロサンゼルスの日本語ラジオ局の番組『LAモーニング…
Read Part 3 >> 1982 Vincent Chin Murder in Detroit We both remember the murder of the Chinese American, Vincent Chin. Until then I didn’t realize …
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