the Wing Luke Museum and Chin Music Press are publishing a graphic novel that sheds new light on a major part of that history – the WW2 exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans.
In that regard theDensho Projectin Seattle has been a leader in the documentation of facts about the WW2 incarceration of Japanese Americans, both through the video capture of first-person narratives and the preservation of photos and documents. So it is worth taking note when Densho addresses th...
In that regard theDensho Projectin Seattle has been a leader in the documentation of facts about the WW2 incarceration of Japanese Americans, both through the video capture of first-person narratives and the preservation of photos and documents. So it is worth taking note when Densho addresses th...
my current project to adapt John Okada’sNo-No Boyfor the stage, on the panel, “Interpreting Japanese American Incarceration in the 21st Century Through Alternative Methods.” Our panel features the powerful lineup of Elena Tajima Creef, Dr, Erin Aoyama, Dr. Hana Maruyama, and chair Julia ...
I promise the posts will be newsworthy and will continue to uncover discoveries about the largest resistance to the WW2 incarceration of Japanese Americans. After 70 years interest in the camps has never been stronger. The difference is that over the past decade, with our film and now the new...
The musical premieres at the Old Globe as a mild story of broken family ties, not a judgment of U.S. mistakes related to the internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s. …“Allegiance” presents a surprisingly mild story of family fractures, not an indictment of American failures. … Th...
She was still bitter, a half-century after the war, over the JACL’s presuming to speak for all Japanese Americans, as it urged them gladly to comply with government orders to evacuate their homes and enter concentration camps in barren, hostile places in the desert.At the time of her own...
The musical premieres at the Old Globe as a mild story of broken family ties, not a judgment of U.S. mistakes related to the internment of Japanese Americans in the 1940s. …“Allegiance” presents a surprisingly mild story of family fractures, not an indictment of American failures. … Th...