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Aloha 'Oe, Dr. Franklin Odo: Remembering a Brilliant Scholar and a Special Mentor and Friend - Part 1

“If you don’t control your own culture and your own vision of life, and your own participation in life, then you don’t control anything. And …

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Reflections on a Pilgrimage: The Dust of Poston

My mother’s memories of Poston are thick with dust. When I ask my 93-year-old mother about Poston, she starts with the dust storms. She tells …

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Joe Oishi’s Nursery and The Promised Year

In October 2022, during a trip to Berkeley, California to do research at the Bancroft Library, I stopped in at Eastwind Books. Normally, when I …

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Recollections from Jerome and Rohwer

In 2002-2004, I was honored to serve with two distinguished historical colleagues, the late Roger Daniels and the late Franklin Odo, as a co-consultant for …

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #78.79 Years: "This Mortal Coil..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Life Between Breaths — a Primer —” Check back every …

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Grammy-Nominated Musician Masa Takumi and His Move to the U.S. in 2018

To the Most Prestigious of the Music Industry On the list of nominees in the Global Music Album category of the 65th Grammy Awards, which …

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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

Stone Songs

Happy New 2023, everyone!  What better way to begin than with the beauty of poetry and prose from Amy Uyematsu and her most recent collection, That Blue …

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ByFood.com: A Cornucopia of Information for Planning Food Adventures and More in Japan — Part 2

Read part 1 >> Who is Serkan Toso? As I explored byFood.com, I started wondering who is the mastermind behind this site? The “About Us” …

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Cuando llegue el momento

Una antigua canción mexicana me hace acordar aquellos viejos momentos ya vividos. La tendencia de todo lo nuestro es vivir de acuerdo con lo que …

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ByFood.com: A Cornucopia of Information for Planning Food Adventures and More in Japan — Part 1

As a Nikkei New Yorker who is planning a trip to Japan in the next year or two, I recently discovered byFood.com, self-described as “Japan’s …