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This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a …
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Who does “Nikkeijin” refer to? Answering this question is not easy. Today they are defined as “Japanese immigrants who have moved overseas with the intention …
“So, one of the questions that mixed people get asked a lot is ‘What are you?’” stated Laura Kina, a Professor at DePaul University, speaking …
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During my involvement in Japanese American studies, from 1972 to the present, I have been struck by two simultaneous developments. The first is a growing …
Read Part 1 >> Connected to Japanese Society and Culture Many Shin-Nisei (children of post war Japanese immigrants) on the U.S. continent do not identify …
Slideshow above: The few remaining urban enclaves of Japanese American culture and identity. Have you ever thought about what it means to identify as Japanese …
Rear Part 2 >> Touring my own country, in another country I’ve said in previous articles that I don’t feel I belong in this country, …
Read Part 1 >> In June a friend invited me to join her and other members of the Japanese Student Association (JSA) of Seattle University …
On a warm spring day last year, members of the Japanese Peruvian community filled the pews of the Church of Christ Presbyterian in Chicago not …
Hapa, in Hawaiian, means “part” or “mixed.” It’s typically used to describe a person of Asian or Pacific Islander descent. I heard the word on …
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