July 2019
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Counteracting ‘invisibility’ within the JA community
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
TRANS-PACIFIC JAPANESE AMERICAN STUDIES: CONVERSATIONS ON RACE AND RACIALIZATIONS Edited by Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2016, 448 pp., $35, hardcover) This substantial volume […] READ MORE
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The truth behind religious freedom in Japan
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
FAKING LIBERTIES: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICAN-OCCUPIED JAPAN By Jolyon Baraka Thomas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 336 pp., $32.50, paperback) Although only an assistant professor of religious studies at […] READ MORE
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Japanese American Citizens League considers apology to Tule Lake resisters
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Nearly two decades after passing a resolution addressing its past skeletons, a national Japanese American organization is once again set to confront its controversial actions during the war. The National […] READ MORE
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FINDING YOUR NIKKEI ROOTS: Researching ‘war brides’
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei Web
…thousands of GIs stationed (or on leave) in Japan, both during and after the occupation, returned home with Japanese wives. Some of these men were Nisei soldiers. There were many reasons why Japanese women married American men. Obviously, many of the couples married for love. But some of the women may have been trying to… READ MORE
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How a teacher’s letters helped JA inmates
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind By Cynthia Grady, illustrated by Amiko Hirao. (Watertown, Mass.: Charlesbridge, 2018, 32 pp., $16.99, hardcover) This […] READ MORE
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The causes and consequences of a government ‘scheme’
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
THE TANGO WAR: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE HEARTS, MINDS AND RICHES OF LATIN AMERICA DURING WORLD WAR II By Mary Jo McConahay (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2018, 336 pp., […] READ MORE
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Classic haiku poems in beautiful dreamscapes
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
MY FIRST BOOK OF HAIKU POEMS Translated by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, illustrated by Tracy Gallup (North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, 2019, 48 pp., $16.99, hardcover) “My First Book of Haiku Poems” […] READ MORE
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Scaring versus sharing
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Let’s Scare Bear By Yuko Katakawa (New York: Holiday House, 2019, 40 pp., $17.99, hardcover) “Let’s Scare Bear,” based on a classic Japanese rakugo (comic storytelling) tale, is a funny, […] READ MORE
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Text ‘enrichens’ knowledge of Asian Americans in the South
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South By Stephanie Hinnershitz (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, 296 pp., $39.95, hardcover) In “A […] READ MORE
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Bookseller, like Japanese American community, perseveres through challenges
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Women, children, mothers, fathers, families. Some 120,000 persons of Japanese descent were trapped behind barbed wire fences for having a cultural connection to Japan during World […] READ MORE
