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Riosloggers: February 2015
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Taiwan Carbonated Water Saga: Nobukage Takenaka in Suao, Yilan County. Okinawa is close to Taiwan. How close? Well, Naha and Jilong or Keelung are about 600 kilometers (400 miles) apart. However, Yonagunijima, the westernmost of the Yaegakijima islands is only 110 kilometers from Suao and Yilan County. I wrote a post three years ago. Nobukage must have found Taiwan the country of his destiny after traveling as a civilian roundsman and after reloc...
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Riosloggers: Cuba Part 7: Finca Vigia Museo
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Thursday, June 11, 2015. Cuba Part 7: Finca Vigia Museo. Courage is grace under pressure. Le courage est la grâce malgré la pression. My last post on Cuban is about the hilltop “Finca Vigia”, currently “Museo Hemingway”, along with the featured furnishing of ‘Pilar’, a 12 meter long fishing boat, operated by the Cuban Finca Vigia Foundation. The venue is 8 miles east of Havana. The medal was displayed on the altar, but was stolen in the 1980s. It was safely recovered wi...
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Riosloggers: April 2015
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Saturday, April 25, 2015. Cuba Part 3: “A Message to Garcia”. Some one said to the President, "There’s a fellow by the name of Rowan who will find Garcia . . .". Speaking of Cuba, I cannot forget the above quote from “A Message to Garcia” written a little before 1900 by Elbert Hubbard. I read it in the 1986 best seller Letters of a Businessman to His Son. Employers need to hire a go-getter type person like Rowan who doesn't question why or how and make excuses. Rocuyemon wa...
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Dots and Lines: WW2 Letters
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. 1 who you are and how you decided. Boy in Japanese internment camp who enlisted to be a soldier. I've always been interested in the Japanese in the camps, since they were American citizens imprisoned for no reason other than that they were Japanese. I remember a play I saw once about children in the camps. Including specific links and the major topics, people, and info in your letter. Japanese American National Museum. Letters of a Nation. Other sources I can use:. An aspiring ar...
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Riosloggers: January 2015
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Memories from World War II. TM Mitsuko Nishimura, cofounder of Kitakyushu Toastmasters and her two sisters, born in Taiwan, were boated north from Keelung to Kagoshima. I read that Mitsuko tried to talk to local Japanese women farmers in Kagoshima but was baffled with an answer she couldn’t understand. This was the first of many reverse culture shock she experienced. It was the Kagoshima dialect! The following is a quote from this book:. One day...
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Riosloggers: Infamy
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. My son, who lives in New York, took the trouble to airfreight me Richard Reeves’ Infamy. A 340 page book newly published by Henry Holt and Co. The subtitle reads “The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II.” This is the first book Joanne Oppenheim’s Dear Miss Breed. Translation as I so aimed. The following two stories from Infamy. Were particularly memorable to me. Japanese American National Museum. Dear Ryou san,. I was m...
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Riosloggers: March 2015
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Friday, March 20, 2015. Friendship through Block Prints. Displayed here are a few of his block prints:. Labels: Battle of Yashima. Monday, March 9, 2015. Yonagunijima, Westernmost Island of Japan. In writing the blog entry “ Suao Carbonated Water Saga. 8221;, I wondered if Nanfan-Ao, the fishing port flourishing today, had existed back then. I guessed not. In researching its history, I suspected the possibility was high that the port was named by Yonagunijima (Yona)...IR...
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Riosloggers: Captain Armour
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Chigusaso, Nakacho 2-27. I didn’t believe what my friend said:. 8220;The dormitory is still there and in use. Take a walk in the morning and a good look.”. I roved the area over an hour. There remained no vestiges of my 40 year old memories. When I met my friend, I told him I found nothing. 8220;I’ll take you there” he replied. He led the way without waiting for my response. There stood the two-story dorm, aged but gallant,. From Magee Park Poets.
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Riosloggers: July 2015
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. My son, who lives in New York, took the trouble to airfreight me Richard Reeves’ Infamy. A 340 page book newly published by Henry Holt and Co. The subtitle reads “The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II.” This is the first book Joanne Oppenheim’s Dear Miss Breed. Translation as I so aimed. The following two stories from Infamy. Were particularly memorable to me. Japanese American National Museum. Monday, July 20, 2015.
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Riosloggers: May 2015
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A Blog Written by Rio Imamura. Monday, May 18, 2015. Cuba Part 5: Kingdom of Health and Medicine. A few days ago, Japan's Foreign Affairs Minster Fumio Kishida visited Havana and met with Dr. Carlos Manuel Guiterrez, President of Cuba-Japan Parliamentary Friendship League. Dr. Guiterrez is President of BioCubaFarma, a company engaged in preventive vaccine research and development. The meeting agenda was future possible collaboration with Japanese industries. Cuba has been involved with the ALBA program, ...
