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12 May 2021
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Title: "8mm Film Projector." Charles Campbell Collection. Repository: Nikkei National Museum. Accession Number: 2021.2.1.1.1. Circa 1930s. By Jeffery Chong BURNABY — This item is a Keystone 8mm film projector, model R-8, with serial number 491996, dating circa the 1930s. The projector comes...
Read more → 15 Apr 2021
Posted by nikkeivoice 
Page 10 of the chronicle compiled by the Tanakas, covering reported events on Feb. 18 and 19, 1942. Image information: "Chronicle by Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka, Dec. 7, 1941, through Oct. 16, 1944." Collection: Jitaro and Sumiko Tanaka Collection. Accession Number: 2002.2.1.1.1.10. Year: 1944. By...
Read more → 16 Mar 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Learning to live with our demons and what we cannot control. Photo credit: Georges Seguin/Wikimedia Commons. I woke up one morning and called my best friend, Barb, in a panic. I asked her if something should happen to me, could she release my writings? I explained that I have so much I want to share...
Read more → 09 Mar 2021
Posted by Lisa Uyeda 
Title: "Tea Set." Collection: Anonymous. Repository: Nikkei National Museum. Accession Number: TD 1409. Year: 1942. These are emotional stories of items that will always be remembered by those who had no choice but to leave them behind and the betrayal of the promise that these belongings...
Read more → 19 Feb 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer," wrote French philosopher and author Albert Camus. I find it in cross-country skiing, skating, and walking in nature. I also find it curling up with a good book, drinking my morning café au lait, inspiring music, spending...
Read more → 18 Feb 2021
Posted by Lindsey Jacobson 
Title: "Nimi Shoten Mosaic." Collection: Found in the Nimi Family Collection. Accession Number: 1997.197.3.1.a-e. Year: 1918 The store was a prewar drugstore, opened in 1918 and ran by several generations of the Nimi family. During the forced removal and dispossession of Japanese Canadians along...
Read more → 22 Jan 2021
Posted by Jeffery Chong 
Mochi making at the Nishimuras. These home movie stills are from the Maki and Frank Yosaburo Nishimura collection held at the Nikkei National Museum. Accession Number: NNM 2018.38.2.1.10 Following this shot, Kim, Mink, and Maki Nishimura shape the mochi. Mochitsuki is traditionally a family...
Read more → 19 Jan 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Caroline Ishii puts love and care into all the food she makes. Photo credit: Caroline Ishii. A chef friend told me he could not put all the care and detail into his food that I do with mine. I replied I don't know any other way than to give it my best and make people happy. Living in Japan, I realized...
Read more → 13 Jan 2021
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Healthy food practices are taught in Japan at a young age. School children take turns serving each other lunch in Japan. I realized this may not always be the case. It's like when someone asks me about Japan after being away for a year. What can you say without sitting down with them for a few hours?...
Read more → 20 Nov 2020
Posted by Caroline Ishii 
Columnist Caroline Ishii on learning how to be alone while living in the Japanese countryside. In leaving Ochi, many friends and colleagues wanted to say goodbye, take me out, give me gifts, and spend time with me. I wondered where all these people were when I was yearning for the company throughout...
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