picture brides
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Former picture brides’ oral histories enlightens
January 1, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
PICTURE BRIDE STORIES By Barbara F. Kawakami (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2016, 408 pp., $39.99, cloth) “Soto Kimura’s story is typical of the stories of early Issei women. They […] READ MORE
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20th anniversary screenings of ‘Picture Bride’ honor pioneering Issei
October 15, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
More than 100 community members gathered at New People Cinema in San Francisco’s Japantown Sept. 25 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kayo Hatta’s groundbreaking film “Picture Bride.” According to […] READ MORE
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Nichi Bei Foundation to present 20th anniversary screenings of Kayo Hatta’s ‘Picture Bride’ Sept. 25 in S.F.’s Japantown
September 3, 2015 by Nichi Bei News
The Nichi Bei Foundation will present two screenings of late director Kayo Hatta’s groundbreaking and award-winning film, “Picture Bride,” on Japanese immigrants (Issei) Friday, Sept. 25 at New People Cinema, […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Issei Women,Giving birth to a community
October 14, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
This overview article starts off a series of portraits from a whole class of “unknown greats”: Issei women. Of all the ethnic Japanese in the United States in the first […] READ MORE
