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  • Filipino American History Month: My Reflections as a Filipina American

    Growing up in Japan, I visited the Philippines every other Christmas and several summers. When I first moved to America for college, I experienced culture shock. I had visited the United States often and studied American history, but I had never lived—or identified—as an American until 2009. I am still learning what it means to […]

  • Falling Leaves

    autumn leaves falling spilling rain from cloudy skies goodbye summer Since I could never be Japanese, despite being born and raised in Tokyo, the urban forests that surrounded me throughout my childhood are my only truth that Japan is home. When my father passed, we had to move out of the house that we called […]