Participating Scholars
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Project Description
Scholars
Institutional Participants
Resources
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Staff and Advisors
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Kozy Amemiya
Research Project:
The 'Labor Pains' in Forging a Nikkei Community in the Santa Cruz Region, Bolivia
e-mail:
kamemiya@ucsd.edu
Makoto Arakaki
Research Project:
The Formation Process of a Diasporic Uchinanchu Identity:A Case Study of Okinawan Identity in Hawai'i
e-mail:
makochu@aol.com
Raúl Araki
Research Project:
An Assessment to the Process of the Formation of the Nikkei Identity in Peru
e-mail:
musinjap@apjp.org.pe
Harumi Befu
Research Project:
Nikkei in the Context of Globalizing Japan
e-mail:
befu@po.kbu.ac.jp
Marcelo Higa
Research Project:
Descendants of Japanese in Argentina
e-mail:
marcelo@educ.ferris.ac.jp
Lane Hirabayashi
Research Project:
Comparative Political Empowerment: Nikkei in Gardena, Hawai'i and Peru
e-mail:
lane.hirabayashi@colorado.edu
Masako Iino
Research Project:
"LARA" and Japanese Canadians (and Japanese Americans)
e-mail:
iino@tsuda.ac.jp
Emilia Yumi Kasamatsu
Research Project:
The New Perspective of Nikkei
e-mail:
emikasa@rieder.net.py
Audrey Kobayashi
Research Project:
A Demographic Analysis of the Japanese-Canadian Population
e-mail:
kobayashi@post.queensu.ca
Teruko Kumei
Research Project:
"The Twain Shall Meet" in Nisei?: Japanese Language Education and the U.S.-Japan Relation
e-mail:
kumeit@shirayuri.ac.jp
Jeffrey Lesser
Research Project:
In Search of the Hyphen: Nikkei and the Struggle over Brazilian National Identity, 1920 to Present
e-mail:
jhles@conncoll.edu
Doris Moromisato Miasato
Research Project:
The Symbolic Construction of the Feminine and the Masculine in the Peruvian Nikkei Community
e-mail:
dmoromisato@blockbuster.com.pe
Maria Elena Ota Mishima
Research Project:
Mexicans of Japanese Ancestry
Naomi Hoki Moniz
Research Project:
Tizuka Yamazaki:From Nationalism to Cultural Identity
e-mail:
moniz@gunet.georgetown.edu
Edson Mori
Research Project:
Economic contributions of Japanese-Brazilians "dekaseguis" in Brazil and Japan
e-mail:
edsonm@iadb.org
Amelia Morimoto
Research Project:
Peruvian Nikkei Political Identity 1990-1998
e-mail:
musinjap@apip.org.pe
Gary Mukai
Research Project:
Japanese Migration to the Americas
e-mail:
gary.mukai@forsythe.stanford.edu
Masato Ninomiya
Research Project:
Dekasegi phenomenon from the Brazilian viewpoint
e-mail:
ninomiya@nethall.com.br
Steven Masami Ropp
Research Project:
The Local and the Global of being Nikkei in Peru and the United States: Cultural Citizenship and Bio-Politics in the Pacific Rim
e-mail:
sropp@ucla.edu
Yasuo Sakata
Research Project:
Still a Buried Past
e-mail:
y-sakata@utc.osaka-gu.ac.jp
Shigeru Sugiyama
Research Project:
Trilateral Relations between Mexico, the United States, and Japan in the Late 1930s
e-mail:
shsugi@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp
Yasuko I. Takezawa
Research Project:
The Latin American Nikkei Community in Kobe
e-mail:
ytakezaw@aol.com
