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Tadashi Tsufura
Tessaku - July 14, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsTadashi Tsufura was a young teenager living with his family in the farming community of Parlier, California, where his father, Shosetsu Tsufura was the Buddhist minister and his mother, Midori (Kamamoto), was a Japanese language teacher - both central to the community’s cultural heritage and kno...
Tadashi Tsufura
Tessaku - July 14, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsTadashi Tsufura was a young teenager living with his family in the farming community of Parlier, California, where his father, Shosetsu Tsufura was the Buddhist minister and his mother, Midori (Kamamoto), was a Japanese language teacher - both central to the community’s cultural heritage and kno...
The Songbird of Manzanar: Mary Nomura
Tessaku - August 17, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMary Nomura was a teenager when she and her siblings were sent to Manzanar. Both parents had passed when she was young, leaving her eldest siblings to struggle through the Depression in caring for the family. But in camp she found friends, a new social life, and her future husband. In this episod...
Mary Nomura - The Songbird of Manzanar
Tessaku - August 17, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMary Nomura was a teenager when she and her siblings were sent to Manzanar. Both parents had passed when she was young, leaving her eldest siblings to struggle through the Depression in caring for the family. But in camp she found friends, a new social life, and her future husband. In this episo...
Grace Izuhara
Tessaku - August 05, 2018 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsGrace Izuhara was five years old and living in Los Angeles when WWII broke out. And rather than go to camp, her family chose to avoid it by leaving their home and signing up for a farm labor program to harvest a vital wartime staple: sugar beets. But unlike other Japanese Americans who were chil...
Episode 3
Not Safe for Weebs: Fandom and Politics from a Salty Japanese-American - July 16, 2018 21:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAfter seeing Boots Riley's excellent movie Sorry to Bother You this weekend and getting all fired up about fighting The Man, I talk about other anticapitalist satires and labor rights struggle movies. Then I interview a sharp, critical Korean-American about media coverage of Korea in the age of ...
Kazuo Yamaguchi
Tessaku - July 02, 2018 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsBorn and raised in Queens, New York, Kaz's family lived alongside all Italian Americans, even befriending members of the mafia. It wasn't until he went to basic training at Fort Snelling that he met other young Niseis from the West Coast and Hawaii who, as he puts it, "straightened him out real q...
Kazuo Yamaguchi
Tessaku - July 02, 2018 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsBorn and raised in Queens, New York, Kaz's family lived alongside all Italian Americans, even befriending members of the mafia. It wasn't until he went to basic training at Fort Snelling that he met other young Niseis from the West Coast and Hawaii who, as he puts it, "straightened him out real q...
Episode 02
Not Safe for Weebs: Fandom and Politics from a Salty Japanese-American - June 30, 2018 22:32 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA mini-episode where I talk about the June 30th Families Belong Together protest and explain what borders really are.
Nancy Yamamoto
Tessaku - June 21, 2018 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNancy Yamamoto was a teenager when war broke out between the U.S. and Japan. Her plans to become a fashion designer were abruptly put on hold as her family was uprooted from a farming town near Sacramento to the harsh landscape of Tule Lake. In our chat, she reflects on her anger towards Japan fo...
Nancy Yamamoto
Tessaku - June 21, 2018 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNancy Yamamoto was a teenager when war broke out between the U.S. and Japan. Her plans to become a fashion designer were abruptly put on hold as her family was uprooted from a farming town near Sacramento to the harsh landscape of Tule Lake. In our chat, she reflects on her anger towards Japan fo...
Episode 01
Not Safe for Weebs: Fandom and Politics from a Salty Japanese-American - June 15, 2018 21:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI'm Solace K. Ames—welcome to my podcast. If you're a weeaboo and listen to this podcast you might get a rash or something, hence the title. This is mainly a serious show about touchy subjects in both fandom and politics and the intersection thereof. If you have any questions or comments, please...
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