July 2014
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A Match for Bay: Eight-year-old Nikkei battles leukemia
July 26, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
While most children play outside this summer, 8-year-old Baylor “Bay” Nihei Fredrickson from Albany, Calif engages in Nerf gun battles with nurses in between chemotherapy rounds. Baylor, who is of […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Flora Tomiko Umene
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
UMENE, FLORA TOMIKO, 84, passed away peacefully on July 11, 2014. She was born on July 26, 1929 in Sacramento but lived and worked in Richmond for many years. She […] READ MORE
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OBITUARY: Nobuo Kono
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
KONO, NOBUO, passed away peacefully July 7, 2014. He is survived by his son, Grant; daughter, Marlene; sister, Hisae Joanna Sakai; and other relatives. As were his wishes, there […] READ MORE
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THE GOCHISO GOURMET: What a bitter person …
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
OK, I don’t really consider myself a bitter person. I am a bit of a pessimist and perpetually carry the attitude and assumption that the glass is half empty, but […] READ MORE
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FULL COUNT: The latest on trio of Japanese arms
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
A week after the All-Star break, three Japanese starting pitchers find themselves in very different situations. Just prior to the All-Star Game, the New York Yankees received the awful news […] READ MORE
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Love and (bad) luck: A multigenerational family’s trials
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
THE THING ABOUT LUCK By Cynthia Kadohata (Chicago: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014, 304 pp., $7.99, paperback) Kouun is “good luck” in Japanese, and one year my family had […] READ MORE
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The fruits of Santa Clara Valley’s Asian laborers
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
GARDEN OF THE WORLD: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley By Cecilia M. Tsu (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 304 pp., $99, hard cover; […] READ MORE
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An intimate look at the life of ‘an American with a Japanese face’
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
JIM AND JAP CROW: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America By Matthew M. Briones (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012, 288 pp., $42, hard cover) It is rare that […] READ MORE
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Noted scholar re-examines landmark Japanese American incarceration cases
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CASES: The Rule of Law in Time of War By Roger Daniels (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2013, 232 pp., $17.95, paperback) Why another book about […] READ MORE
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Nisei revisits her wartime past through watercolors
July 24, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
GASA GASA GIRL GOES TO CAMP: A Nisei Youth behind a World War II Fence By Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2014, 224 pp., […] READ MORE
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