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In Yamanashi-ken, Near Renton
An ojousan’s address. It reads, “Yamanashi-ken, Minamitsuru-gun, Nishikatsuramura,Onuma.” By David Yamaguchi For the North American Post IN DECEMBER in this space, I lamented the vanishing of spoken Japanese from everyday Japanese American life. As
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Sansei Journal Akemashite Over the years
By David Yamaguchi For The North American Post WHEN MY SIBLINGS AND I were children, my mom reviewed the standard New Year’s greetings with us annually as we readied to go to our grandparents’
Read More »A Fading Conversation
“KONNICHI WA!” [Good day!] “Onegai shimasu.” [Will you do so for me?] Using only these expressions once each, I can get through life for a month as a Seattle Japanese American. I say them
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IN MY APRIL COLUMN, I posed the question of who was “Kimi Sanbo” in real life? Kimi is the intelligent young Nisei that brightened the days of author Betty MacDonald across her nine-month stay
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