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I feel a close kinship with this remarkable book by Michael R. Jin. In 2013, I was privileged to read his pioneering UC Santa Cruz …
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As a second-generation Uchinānchu (Okinawan immigrant), Karen Tengan Okuda lives and works on the unceded lands of the Eora and Dharug peoples (Sydney, Australia). Okuda …
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Seattle native Michelle Kumata’s artistic journey has taken her across the country to New York and across the hemisphere to Brazil, not only to discover …
Renee Tajima-Peña is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and professor of Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Her documentary projects focus on immigrant communities, …
The Japanese traders who were the first to visit Cambodia were concentrated in Japanese quarters around Phnom Penh and Pinalu. An estimated 1,500 Japanese, mostly …
We love to travel and like most travelers, have a bucket list of places we want to visit before we die. At the top of …
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Background of Japanese Overseas Migration The overseas migration of Japanese started with the opening of the island nation to the rest of the world and its …
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Discover Nikkei conducted a pilot international survey about Nikkei communities and identities in North America, South America, and Japan. It was the first time that …
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