Rabbit Ramblings
Nichi Bei News columnist Chizu Omori, of Oakland, California, is co-producer of the award-winning film “Rabbit in the Moon.” She can be reached at chizuomori@gmail.com. The views expressed in the preceding column are not necessarily those of the Nichi Bei News.
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Let’s get into the struggle
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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What a year this is turning out to be. There is so much uncertainty that I feel at a loss for words to address the situation that our country is […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Avoiding government-induced poison
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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Well, that does it. From now on, I plan to buy mostly organic produce. I know that it will cost me a bit more, but after watching the new Rachel […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: A wake up call
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable emotion and state of existing, and we’re living through such times, what with the outcome of the elections. But we have to go on living and […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Confronting ‘trauma’ at Tule Lake, and a call to action
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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Another Tule Lake Pilgrimage is over. This last one, held over the Fourth of July weekend, from July 1-4, was the 21st. First held in 1974, this amounts to roughly […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Rooting for the Warriors (and thoughts on race)
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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So I’ve become a rabid Warriors fan in the last few years. I’m sure that there are mobs of others who have gotten interested in this team — not just […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Culture and history collide in wartime family drama
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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“I have been thinking about this subject for a long time,” said Luis Valdez in a phone conversation. Valdez, who is a world renown playwright and writer, was referring to […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: A ‘phantasmagoric, dreamy depiction’ of one man’s post-camp life
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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For a long time, I have thought of the incarceration experience as full of possibilities for drama, fiction and other forms of creative expression. So much happened in the camps. […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Fighting for just ideals
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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We’ve had such a flurry of mentions of camp history in the last several months that obviously there’s renewed interest about what happened to us during World War II. We […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Who gets to tell the Japanese American incarceration story?
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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What are the meanings to be found in our camp experience? And why am I puzzling over such a deep question, and why now? It’s because I am involved in […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Human nature, incarceration and intimidation
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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I recently saw “Stanford Prison Experiment,” a feature film based on an experiment conducted by Stanford University professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971. This is a famous study, one that is […] READ MORE
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