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My current ancestor's altar is a bamboo bush in a planter. In Japan, the altar space for ancestors and gods/goddesses have strict...

Recently, I got a question about the ancestral inheritance instead of ancestral debt. Most definitely each one of us has ancestral...

I got a lot of supports from Japanese folk songs for my extreme homesick. Now and then, music is always with our life. When we listen to...

When I immigrated to the US 10 years ago, I was young enough to not take it too serious. The reality is that immigration is like the...

Asking “Who is our ancestors?” is like asking “what is the air?” It’s so simple yet mysterious. Who are our ancestors actually? I’d love...