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Article: East meets West: the Japan-America Society of Mississippi helps two diverse groups of people understand they're not so different after all.(Culture Center)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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At the young age of 14, both John Henry Jackson and Paul Tashiro made life-changing decisions, leading them down vastly different roads. The fact that their chosen paths eventually brought them to the same place--the Japan-America Society of Mississippi--is nothing short of amazing.
Their stories, and those of the many members of the society, serve as the backbone of the organization that strives to provide an easy transition for Japanese nationals who are in the state for a limited amount of time for professional reasons, as well as those Americans who have an interest in the Japanese culture and international business.
Jackson was a student at St. ...