Five events for Day of Remembrance 2021
When we staged the first Day of Remembrance 43 years ago, we had no idea how it would persist to become an invented tradition to be observed wherever Japanese Americans live. This year it’s a weekend...
View ArticleTwo imaginative works relating to Japanese Americans in WW2
September sees the emergence of two works of popular fiction, by two masters of their respective genres, that each touch on the Japanese and Japanese American experience in World War II. Both will bear...
View ArticleALLEGIANCE uplifts by doctoring Japanese American history
Thanks for finding this post via links from Wikipedia, the New York Times and other reviews. See the real story of the Heart Mountain resisters as told in our PBS film, Conscience and the Constitution....
View ArticleMaking February 19 a Day of Resistance
I realize there’s too much to focus on right now, between keeping kids safe from guns, the Russian indictments, and more, but February 19 is coming up. Please join Dale Minami and others in making this...
View ArticleFamily separations nothing new for Japanese Americans
As documented in our new book, JOHN OKADA: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, the Japanese American experience was in some ways the reverse of this week’s child separations on...
View Article“Resistance, Resettlement, and Redress”
I’m no lawyer, but I could not say no when the Case Western Reserve Law Review asked for a piece based on our EO9066 panel last November. The symposium offered me the opportunity to revisit the...
View ArticleNational Day of Remembrance tops February events
As the month for the annual Day of Remembrance, February is always the busiest time of year for speaking requests. This year being the 80th anniversary of EO 9066, A friend counted 33 DOR events...
View ArticleInterview: “Betrayed”
Starting today and for the month of May you can watch director Rory Banyard’s new film on Minidoka, Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp, on select local PBS stations and the PBS app. I...
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