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For some, tracing their family history goes as far as an online search, but for Georgia Southern multimedia film and production Assistant Professor , it meant speaking with family members to uncover and preserve his family鈥檚 legacy. When Hashiguchi arrived at Georgia Southern in 2015, he had already been working on a documentary regarding his family history for three years. 鈥淚 always tell my students that stories are passion projects, and you have to spend two, three, four, five years of your life on them,鈥� said Hashiguchi. 鈥淚t鈥檚 important if you鈥檙e going to spend a big chunk of your life on something that you鈥檙e passionate about it. I view my work as a lifestyle. Teaching isn鈥檛 just a job. I enjoy passing that knowledge down to people who want to listen. And I like hearing people鈥檚 stories as well.鈥� Passing knowledge and passion onto his students is why Hashiguchi is a professor, but being able to pass them onto a much larger audience is why he is a filmmaker. In 鈥�,鈥� Hashiguchi spends time with his grandmother learning about their Japanese heritage and experiences that influenced the lives of family members before, during and after World War II. He tells his story of growing up mixed race in a predominantly white Midwestern neighborhood through interviews with family members, home movies and photos, and narration. 鈥淚鈥檝e seen films on World War II internment camps, but they were always dated,鈥� explained Hashiguchi. 鈥淔or me, my perspective was that I grew up Japanese-American in the Midwest. No one ever told that story or what happened after the internment camps closed, so I think it was more about what I didn鈥檛 see. I didn鈥檛 hear stories that aligned with mine, so I thought, 鈥楬ere鈥檚 an experience. There are many people like myself who are experiencing the exact same thing,鈥� and I wanted to explore that.鈥� Not only did Hashiguchi create a film about his family and their experiences, he also created a with more than 100 other people鈥檚 experiences. The interactive site features a collection of stories that have been uploaded from the public or documented and gathered by his team in a sequence of seven chapters. Each chapter is a self-contained story, but when viewed together, the chapters reflect universal narratives of immigration, integration and identity. 鈥淭his experience is becoming more relevant to Georgia every single day,鈥� said Hashiguchi. 鈥淭he Asian-American population is the fastest growing race in the United States, and the majority of that is happening in the South, so this experience is going to become more and more relevant as the days and years go by.鈥� Hashiguchi鈥檚 documentary, 鈥淕ood Luck Soup,鈥� will have its U.S. television premiere Tuesday, May 9, at 8 p.m., on PBS World Channel as part of the new season of public media鈥檚 America Reframed. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a first for me,鈥� said Hashiguchi. 鈥淚鈥檝e never had anything broadcast nationally. It鈥檚 very exciting and very rare.鈥� 糖心Vlog, a public Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers 119 degree programs serving 20,673 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor鈥檚, master鈥檚 and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered and hands-on approach to education. Visit .