CHANGING SEASON: A FATHER, A DAUGHTER, A FAMILY FARM By David Mas Masumoto with Nikiko Masumoto (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday, 2016, 192 pp., $16, paperback) In the mid-1980s, while researching the World War II incarceration experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry at the Gila River Relocation Center in south central Arizona, I discovered a brief yet […]
A ‘LABOR OF LOVE’: Farming exhibit in San Jose honors Issei legacy
January 6, 2012 by 1 Comment
SAN JOSE — The Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) introduced its new agricultural exhibit, “Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,†on Dec. 10. With a focus on the Japanese immigrants who settled in Santa Clara Valley in the early part of the 20th century, the permanent exhibit features more than 100 types of […]
An Issei pioneering in the Heartland
August 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
NIKKEI FARMER ON THE NEBRASKA PLAINS: A MEMOIR By Rev. Hisanori Kano Introduced and edited by Tai Kreidler, and translated by Rose Yamamoto. (Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2010, 256 pp., $34.95, cloth) This is a wonderful memoir, tedious in many parts; however, one that provides unique insights of an Issei who was born […]
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