SAM “Four Japanese Americans”
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post “Northwest Modernism: Four Japanese Americans” is an exhibition that opened at the Seattle Art Museum downtown on March 21, 2021. From its title alone, the...
View ArticleMemories of School〜JCCCW’s Omoide Story
By Joe Abo My memories of school start at Griffin School near Olympia, Washington. Actually, the first school I attended was in Red Bluff, California, about three months after we were released from the...
View ArticleBill Tashima: Gaining His Identity and Acceptance
By Elaine Ikoma Ko Special to The North American Post June is LGBTQ Pride Month, when the world’s gay communities celebrate the freedom to be themselves. Pride gatherings share common ground with those...
View ArticleJCCCW 2021 Virtual Tomodachi Gala
On Thursday evening, June 17, the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington (JCCCW) will hold its second Virtual Tomodachi Gala (see ad below). The virtual event is modeled on “the J’s”...
View ArticleVirtual Japan Fair 2021
Japan Fair at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center is an annual event that promotes friendship between Japan and the US by introducing traditional and modern Japanese culture, related educational seminars,...
View Article‘Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker’
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post During this pandemic, all of us were going to do many great things—write a book, clean the house, learn a foreign language… now along comes a new book from a...
View ArticleMother’s Day〜JCCCW’s Omoide
By Joan Seko My Dear Daughter: You may not know me as well but I know everything about you. I have loved you every minute for the past twenty-five years. I’m familiar with all your ways. For you are my...
View ArticleMONEY TALK 529 plans: More versatile than ever
If you have children or grandchildren, you may already be somewhat familiar with the 529 plan, a popular education savings vehicle. But you may not have kept up with some recent changes in the plan’s...
View ArticleOn Nikkei and Cross-Racial Solidarity:Three Seattle-Area Artist/Activist...
By Tamiko Nimura, for The North American Post Below, we continue with the second and third artist/activists of Tamiko’s article from the May 14 issue—Ed. Erin Shigaki: “I want us to be loud” Erin...
View ArticleNorth American Post hosts a Zoom seminar at Japan Fair 2021
The North American Post will host a 45-minute online seminar during Japan Fair 2021 on Saturday June 26th at 5 pm. Entitled “My Family History, Discovering My Grandfather’s Life in Seattle’s Pre-WWII...
View ArticleJACL Anti-Blackness Seminars
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post The N.A.P. checked in with the Seattle JACL, to see how its Anti-Blackness seminars have been going. McKenna Asakawa, one of two lead organizers, responded:...
View ArticleBill Tashima, Gaining His Identity and Acceptance, Part 2
By Elaine Ikoma Ko, Special for The North American Post This is the second of a two-part series on Bill Tashima. The first part was published in the May 28th issue.—Ed. June is LGBTQ Pride Month, when...
View ArticleTsuru for Solidarity Call for Art
Tsuru for Solidarity is pleased to announce a call for art amplifying its mission through art. Tsuru is a Japanese American nonprofit focused on closing detention camps, resisting state-sponsored...
View ArticleNisei Vets 76th Memorial Day Service
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post This year, the Nisei Veterans Committee (NVC) and NVC Foundation posted their 76th Annual Memorial Day Service online. Following a rousing “Star Spangled...
View ArticleSAM: Monet at Étretat
The Seattle Art Museum will soon begin a new exhibition, “Monet at Étretat” (July 1–October 17, 2021), which explores Claude Monet’s paintings made at Étretat, a seaside village in Normandy, France....
View ArticleCongratulations, Graduates!
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post Like no other graduating classes since those of the 1918-1920 Spanish flu pandemic, you have persevered across 14 months of a new, challenging disease...
View ArticleQuiet Warriors Jimmie Kanaya
By Mikiko Amagai, for The North American Post “No, I didn’t get discharged. I stayed (in the U.S. Army after World War II) and went to Korea,” said Jimmie Kanaya. As a teenager, he was always...
View ArticleLong-Term Care Insurance Offers More Than Just Nursing Home Coverage
By Tsuneko Nakatani New York Life Insurance Company and New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation The first image that often comes to mind when people think about long-term care is an elderly...
View Article“This Is Alfalfa”~TOUGH TOFU
By Deems Tsutakawa For The North American Post I originally met my old pal from my high school days, Randy Furuta, while working at the Uwajimaya store at Fifth and Main Street in the International...
View ArticleA WWII Japanese Soldier’s Diary Returns to Japan
By David Yamaguchi, The North American Post Photos by Wendy Sheridan In late April, the NAP received an email query out of the blue from Chizuko (Chiko) Tsukamoto-Jaggard, Executive Director of...
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