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Read Part 1 >> Although their father Kyohei Inukai achieved the greatest renown as an artist, the brothers Julian, Girard and Earle Goodenow sons took …
One remarkable clan of artists is that of the Inukai-Goodenow family. It was formed by Kyōhei Inukai, a Japanese immigrant who became a popular society …
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Read Part 4 >> Here are places where you can see exhibits, artifacts, documents, etc., related to Robert Walker Irwin. * * * * * …
Read Part 3 >> Despite racial prejudice and government pressure to move to the US, Irwin's children and grandchildren remained in Japan during the war …
Read Part 2 >> Irwin's children were biracial in Japan, highly unusual at the time. They didn't feel completely Japanese in Japan nor completely American …
Read Part 1 >> Successfully negotiated by Irwin and his close friend Inouye Kaoru, Japan's Foreign Minister, Kanyaku Imin was a government-contract immigration program that …
*Japanese names in this article follow the Japanese convention of the family name coming before the given name. Irwin arrives in Yokohama in 1866 during …
Author’s note: Kiyoko Wells and I met each other by chance, as a result of a series of rolling blackouts that affected Southern California, during …
Read Part 1 >> Evidence of Michitaro’s residence in the Midwest can be found in the Naniwa church, a congregational church in Osaka, Japan. Archived …
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One day in the early 1980s, my Japanese mother took my sister and me to an International District gift shop. A middle-aged Japanese American man …
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