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While growing up within two different cultures left my siblings and me with bittersweet challenges, we have always had the sweet comforts of the family …
I had a joyous childhood, and an incredibly inspiring one as well, as a Japanese-Russian-Jewish girl growing up in Southern California during the 1970s. My …
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Whenever I go back to Japan these days, it is really with more of a sense of mission, reevaluating my relationship with Japan and my …
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