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Appreciating Wat Misaka

Appropriately, as the National Basketball Association (NBA) celebrates its 75th anniversary, it included Wat Misaka as an important figure in its history. This might seem …

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Different Perspective: A Nikkeijin's Questions on Humanity's Responses to Economic Uncertainty

Is ignorance really bliss? What does it mean when people say, “I can’t wait for things to go back to normal”? What is defined as …

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I Matter: A Personal Reflection

On the news the other day, an interviewer was asking people on the street this question: “When did your race matter?” The interviewer asked people …

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What is it to be a Black Japanese American? What should I tell you? What should you know?

Every story has a point, a narrative, and a conclusion, but when I sat down to write this I couldn’t come up with any of …

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #100% Human: "What are you?..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "What are You?" Check back every weekend for subsequent entries.

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Counteracting 'Invisibility' Within the JA Community

This substantial volume is co-edited by two distinguished Nikkei practitioners of Japanese American studies, one a Japan-based anthropologist, Yasuko Takezawa of Kyoto University, and the …

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #100% Goofball: "Love Me for What I Am..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Identity - or - 'Race is Meaningless, but upbringing is …

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

Eizo Yanagi - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Returning to our questions about Eizo Yanagi, what kind of contacts did he actually have with African Americans in Chicago? Most …

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Suspicious Points of Contact in Pre-War Chicago

Eizo Yanagi - Part 1

Introduction Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the FBI began a nationwide campaign to detain “enemy aliens,” conducting home searches and …

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Ways and Means: The Woman Behind The Moved-Outers

In the face of the tragic events of official confinement and loss that Japanese Americans experienced during World War II, there were numerous non-Japanese who …