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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #6am – 8am: "Childhood Delusions..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Cartoon Lies!! How Saturday Morning Cartoons Deceived Me...” Check back …

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The Power of Irei

Digging up Ways to Honor Her Ancestors—Kyoko Oda and Ireichō

Sometimes it takes a soft-spoken woman like Kyoko Oda to use her charm to make sure the lives of 125,284 incarcerated Japanese American are not …

migration ja

日系（ニッケイ）—をめぐって

第22回 戦争、そして海を渡った日本女性 ー 『花嫁のアメリカ［完全版］』を読む

戦争花嫁の戦後 1945年の敗戦後、占領軍として多くのアメリカの軍人、軍属が日本に駐留した。若い彼らと日本人女性とが恋愛関係に陥るのは、当然の成り…

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Aloha 'Oe, Dr. Franklin Odo: Remembering a Brilliant Scholar and a Special Mentor and Friend - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> At the time of his passing, Franklin was working with Honolulu attorney William “Bill” Kaneko, his former Ethnic Studies student, and …

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Aloha 'Oe, Dr. Franklin Odo: Remembering a Brilliant Scholar and a Special Mentor and Friend - Part 1

“If you don’t control your own culture and your own vision of life, and your own participation in life, then you don’t control anything. And …

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元ブラジル移民、ロス在住の樋口馨さん・ジョルナル・ド・ブラジルでカメラマン

第７回世界のウチナーンチュ大会期間中の11月３日、那覇市平和通り商店街・元雑貨部で開催されていた「なはーとがマチグヮーにやってくる　世界のウチナ…

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Reflections on a Pilgrimage: The Dust of Poston

My mother’s memories of Poston are thick with dust. When I ask my 93-year-old mother about Poston, she starts with the dust storms. She tells …

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Joe Oishi’s Nursery and The Promised Year

In October 2022, during a trip to Berkeley, California to do research at the Bancroft Library, I stopped in at Eastwind Books. Normally, when I …

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日本時間 ～日本語ラジオ放送史～ 《ロサンゼルス編》

第５回 加州毎日放送

1932年７月、ロサンゼルスは地元で開催中のオリンピックで沸いていた。しかし、アメリカでは放送権料に関する合意に至らず、競技が国内向けにラジオ中継さ…

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Recollections from Jerome and Rohwer

In 2002-2004, I was honored to serve with two distinguished historical colleagues, the late Roger Daniels and the late Franklin Odo, as a co-consultant for …