Arts & Entertainment
We cover films and TV shows, theater projects, artists, museum exhibits and publish extensive book reviews in our New Year’s Edition and Summer Book Review.
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Reckoning with the trauma of a family’s unjust incarceration
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THE POET AND THE SILK GIRL: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, IMPRISONMENT, AND PROTEST By Satsuki Ina (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2024, 312 pp., $35, hardcover) Satsuki Ina’s book, “The Poet […] READ MORE
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Rethinking WWII incarceration narratives
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CARCERAL ENTANGLEMENTS: GENDERED PUBLIC MEMORIES OF JAPANESE AMERICAN WORLD WAR II INCARCERATION By Wendi Yamashita (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2024, 196 pp., $26.95, paperback) While scholarship on World War II […] READ MORE
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Anthology pinpoints JA experiences in the 1930s
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JAPANESE AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE PACIFIC WAR: AN UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE 1930S Edited by Eiichiro Azuma and Kaoru Ueda (Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press, 2024, 310 pp. […] READ MORE
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Intriguing narratives on understudied JAs
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The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History By Greg Robinson with Jonathan van Harmelen (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024, 276 pp., $30, paperback) “The […] READ MORE
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A tribute to Salinas Valley’s tenacious Issei
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THE ISSEI OF THE SALINAS VALLEY: JAPANESE PIONEER FAMILIES By Mae Sakasegawa (Pacific Grove, Calif.: Park Place Publications, 2023, 332 pp., $68.25, paperback) I first became aware of the reverential […] READ MORE
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A capstone collection from a beloved historian
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A NIKKEI HARVEST: REVIEWING THE JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE AND ITS LEGACY By Arthur A. Hansen with Wayne H. Maeda (San Francisco: Nichi Bei Foundation, 2024, 292 pp., $24.99, paperback) […] READ MORE
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An expansive and prescient contribution to JA studies
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JAPANESE AMERICANS AND THE RACIAL UNIFORM: CITIZENSHIP, BELONGING, AND THE LIMITS OF ASSIMILATION By Dana Nakano (New York: NYU Press, 2023, 256 pp., $30, paperback) Utilizing Deer Park, an ethnic […] READ MORE
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An extensive analysis of Shin-Issei lives
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INTIMATE STRANGERS: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020 By Tritia Toyota (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023, 226 pp., $32.95 paperback) In 2010, I was privileged to provide […] READ MORE
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Illuminating Nikkei women artists’ work and their connections
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PICTURES OF BELONGING: MIKI HAYAKAWA, HISAKO HIBI, AND MINÉ OKUBO Edited by ShiPu Wang (Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum/University of California Press, 2023, 188 pp., $50, hardcover) In 2017, […] READ MORE
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ACC preserves classic family recipes
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The Foods We Share: The Stories we Tell, a Pan-Asian Community Cookbook By ACC Senior Services (Sacramento, Calif.: 200 pp, $25 paperback) With recipes by more than 130 home cooks […] READ MORE
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