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Though not widely acknowledged, J-Town Toronto did exist. Very little of it can be found today and, back in the day, no one called it …
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Chohichi Tanaka left Itoshima in Fukuoka, Japan in the early 1900s looking for a better life. He decided to venture to America where he thought …
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Gratitude to Chiune Sugihara from Mr. Leo Melamed, honorary chairman of CME Group Leo Melamed, Honorary Chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, who …
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I must have passed her house a thousand times. Each time, I wanted to stop, to see if she would hear my story and accept …
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At our vacation residence in the small San Luis Obispo County community of Los Osos, Calif., my wife and I have a delightful neighbor who …
At the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto there is a rare exhibition of tattoo art by the late artist and teacher Aba Bayefsky (1923–2001) …
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Read Part 2 >> How was growing up and living in Winnipeg different than other places in Canada? What kind of interaction between immigrant groups …
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It wasn’t like Mr. Muncznik to get lost. Then again, his mind wasn’t what it used to be. Every Sunday, he would take the bus …
As a Japanese-Jewish American girl, I have suffered. It’s not just that both of my tribes were placed in camps because they were simply born, or …
Sawako Okochi has always had a sense of adventure. When she finished high school in Hiroshima and her classmates were deciding which Japanese universities to …
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