Opening Act~TOUGH TOFU
By Deems Tsutakawa For The North American Post Like many boomers, I have spent the better part of the last five-plus decades on countless hours making a living doing my craft, which happens to be a...
View ArticleA Window to India
By David Yamaguchi The North American Post Daily world headlines, as well as Shinji Maeda’s flight itinerary above, make the present a good time for all of us to learn more about India, a country that...
View ArticleLarry Matsuda, A Masterful Life, Part 2
By Elaine Ikoma Ko, Special to The North American Post Photos by Matsuda family (unless otherwise noted) Larry Matsuda, higher education Ph.D. Racial/social justice activist leader. Accomplished...
View Article‘Pioneers of Japanese American Baseball’
A new book, “The Pioneers of Japanese American Baseball,” (Fitts, Robert K., 2021) is now available in paperback and on Kindle. The illustrated history introduces readers to the fascinating heroes of...
View ArticleOur Boxcar Home~JCCCW’s Omoide Story
By Kenji Onishi By the early 1900s, when the railroads were racing to lay tracks to connect the East to the West Coast, it was common practice to house laborers in boxcars filled with bunks. After the...
View ArticleJOURNEY TO THE EAST~The COVID-19 Freshman Experience
By Benjamin Narkmon, For The North American Post Starting college is a turning point in one’s life. It is the light at the end of a long tunnel—the finish line after four years of constant competition...
View ArticleHelp Protect Your Family’s Inheritance~MONEY TALK
By Chiaki Hirate You might contribute to your IRA for decades to help pay for your retirement. But if you don’t need all the money, you may want to leave what’s left to your children or grandchildren....
View ArticleWriting ‘We Hereby Refuse’ ~DISCOVER NIKKEI
By Tamiko Nimura When I was a little kid in California in the early 1980s, it was cool to be a rebel, or a resister. On the sawdust-covered playground of my elementary school, we played out different...
View ArticleNational Park Children’s Booklets
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post New, interactive children’s booklets have been completed for families visiting two linked National Park Service sites, the Bainbridge Japanese- American...
View ArticleOne Year Since “Stay Home”
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post It has been a year since Washington State went under a mandatory Stay-at-Home order, which lasted from March 23 to June 1, 2020. While there have been many...
View ArticleAsian Art Museum Reopening
Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM) Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park will reopen to the general public on Friday, May 28, with tickets going on sale April 29. The museum reopens to SAM members on Friday, May...
View ArticleQuiet Warriors Mitsuru Takahashi
By Mikiko Hatch-Amagai, for The North American Post “[A] Bronze Star doesn’t really mean very much. Every soldier that was overseas got it. This is the Silver Star and this is the Purple Heart. Dog...
View ArticleOtoko wa Tsurai~SANSEI JOURNAL
By David Yamaguchi The North American Post ANYONE OF A CERTAIN AGE who grew up watching “Tora-san” films with Issei grandparents will recall the famous phrase from the movie series above. It means “it...
View ArticleNeurotic Culture~TOUGH TOFU
By Deems Tsutakawa For The North American Post We human beings have been living in large collective communities for many generations spanning tens of thousands of years. It can be said that the...
View ArticleNikkei Uncovered, A Poetry Column: Year-Ending
By Amy Uyematsu, Tamiko Nimura, and traci kato-kiriyama As we survey the past year of lockdowns and quarantines that started here in the States by mid-March 2020, we take stock of a wide spectrum of...
View ArticleEating Vegan at Seattle Japanese Restaurants, Destinations 4-6
By Raechel Kundert For The North American Post Rondo 224 Broadway E, Seattle, 98102 (Capitol Hill). Open 11 am-9 pm. Dine in, takeout, or delivery (Grubhub, Doordash, UberEats). 206-588-2051. Rondo has...
View ArticleKiyoko Terao, Early Shin-Issei
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post Among the most charming people whose voices, and occasionally, faces I come across these days is that of my friend, Kiyoko Terao. If it has been a while...
View ArticleJapanese American Museum of Oregon Opening
PORTLAND–The Japanese American Museum of Oregon (JAMO), formerly known as Oregon Nikkei Endowment, has announced the date for the opening of its brand-new museum space at Naito Center. It is in the...
View ArticleBob Shimabukuro, Writer, 1945-2021
By David Yamaguchi, North American Post Many words have recently been written about Bob Shimabukuro, longtime columnist for the “International Examiner.” First, Ron Chew painted an intimate portrait of...
View Article“The Betrayed” A Virtual Two-Act Play by Hiroshi Kashiwagi
“The Betrayed” is a fictional two-act story about a young, Nisei couple who meet at Tule Lake and fall in love, only to be torn apart by two controversial, government-issued “loyalty” questions (“Are...
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