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Motivation to Study Japanese The reason why Nisei children who were born in the U.S. go to Japanese-language schools or hoshūkō is that their parents …
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In mid-May, I reconnected with Elaine Kitamura and her younger brother, Darrell Kitamura, through a friend of a friend. The Kitamuras are the siblings that …
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When Tokyo native Nao Magami was a student at California State University in the 1970s, he wondered why his Japanese American friends only spoke English, …
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I thought it was very unfair of my parents to make me go to Saturday School to learn Japanese. All the other kids I knew …
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As the granddaughter of prominent Japanese American painter Hisako Hibi, Amy Lee-Tai was exposed to art at an early age—and it was through her grandmother’s …
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