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Itoko Nishida, who lived from 1891 to 1987, was originally from Hiroshima-ken before she left Japan to become a picture bride to Kaichi Imada, who …
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When I was nineteen years old, I moved to Japan for a year to work with no life experience outside of Canada. Japan was a …
For better or worse, marriage can change your life. The arranged marriages of my Issei baa-chans (first arrived grandmothers) completely transformed theirs. Even though my …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Things Women Couldn’t Do (Japanese Edition)…” Check back every weekend …
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I want to thank the author of this study for putting a name to the sense of purpose I felt in writing an essay for …
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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Things Women Couldn’t Do!” Check back every weekend for subsequent …
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A closer look at the Asian pro hockey players in the inaugural season of the National Women’s Hockey League Earlier this month (March 2016), the …
Over the years I have been honored to be privy to the transnational stories both of Japanese women who lived in the United States and …
When Japanese Canadians were forced from their homes on the British Columbia coast and interned in the interior mining town of Kaslo in 1942, one …
The Genki Spark was founded in 2010, by Sansei Chinese/Japanese American Karen Young, who was also a founding member of Odaiko New England. They are …
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