azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:E.B. Sledge [Sledge, E.B.]

Boot camp taught me that I was expected to excel, or try to, even under stress. My drill instructor was a small man. He didn’t have a big mouth. He ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-30 | Author:Shaw, Art [Shaw, Art]

30 Nonstop! The 382nd struggled through a long, dangerous night. Somewhere around midnight, a voice called out to one of the guards, saying they had a message for the company ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-07 | Author:Morris, Ivan;

122. In the Fifth Month In the Fifth Month I love going up to a mountain village. When one passes a marsh on the way, a thick covering of weeds ...

azw3 |eng | 2008-08-28 | Author:Stefhen F.D. Bryan & Suzette Burton & Shuji Goshomura & Sean Colquhoun [Bryan, Stefhen F.D.]

AKIYO Stepping off the Hankyu train one day in the late spring of 2003, I observed a pair of inviting cakes clad in tight black pants. Quickening my pace I ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-20 | Author:Joan D. Stamm

epub |eng | | Author:Karen Pond

“Oh, that’s right,” I said to my reflection, “You are a competent, confident woman. You can do it. You can figure things out. You can triumph in Tokyo.” “You know ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Yoshiko Uchida & Yoshiko Uchida [Uchida, Yoshiko]

Plate in hand, I stand in line, Losing my resolve To hide my tears. I see my mother In the aged woman who comes, And I yield to her My ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Tateishi

AN AMERICAN TESTIMONIAL When the JACL national council of delegates voted in 1978 to approve the Salt Lake City Guidelines, in typical fashion it didn’t have adequate funds to back ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Laura Kriska [Kriska, Laura]

I was regularly commuting to work on my bicycle. The main roads were so familiar that I had stopped carrying the map. I had even started experimenting with taking shortcuts, ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Larry Korn [Korn, Larry]

The founders of the East West Foundation (now the Kushi Institute) were Michio and Aveline Kushi. They were also students of George Ohsawa in Japan. Like the Aiharas, the Kushis ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Joan D. Stamm [Stamm, Joan D.]

Chapter 20 Even with a heavy karma Your suffering may be relieved If you offer prayers At the Junteido There is hope Kami Daigoji – Temple 11 Women in the ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn

At the pres­ent time, however, the stranger might be sufficiently impressed by the oddity and brilliancy of these dresses to ask about their origin,—in which case it is not likely ...

epub |eng | 2006-10-04 | Author:Cathy N. Davidson [Davidson, Cathy N.]

9 GOING HOME It’s a land of blue-eyed giants. Men more than six feet tall stride by, arms swinging, voices booming. Kowai, I think (Frightening). “Gaijin!” I want to call ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Lisa Fineberg Cook

And so my day continues. If it had ended after my phone call with Stacey and an evening spent with Peter at home, I might be feeling pretty accomplished right ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Satomi, Shinzo [Satomi, Shinzo]

There is a reason I don’t like ’nawa The best chubo that I made nigiri with was from Oma on the Strait of Tsugaru and was caught by pole-and-line fishing ...