History
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Preserving family histories for the future: Nikkei Angel Island Pilgrimage
November 8, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
Although Japanese Americans now thrive across the United States, approximately 85,000 of them first stepped foot on the U.S. mainland after stopping at the U.S. Immigration Station on Angel Island. […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Queer non-Nikkei figures in Japanese American history (Part V)
October 2, 2014 by Nichi Bei News
(Editor’s Note: This is the last of a multi-part series) One especially noteworthy aspect of Karon Kehoe’s groundbreaking Japanese American camp novel “City in the Sun,” published in 1946, […] READ MORE
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Reflecting on diversity in video games through the LA Riots
May 4, 2012 by Tomo Hirai, Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: An edited version of this post was published in the May 4, 2012 issue of the Nichi Bei Weekly. Who here remembers the Los Angeles Riots of ‘92? […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Looking into the ‘great unknown’
April 5, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Today’s installment offers a different kind of look into the “great unknown,” by unraveling some of the mystery surrounding how I do my research. Probably the question that readers of […] READ MORE
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iTOUR THROUGH HISTORY: New app allows digital media to teach about the Japanese American incarceration experience
January 20, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Have the days when students learned about Japanese American history through textbooks gone by the wayside? As consumers latch on to the latest tech gadgets, some companies are using digital […] READ MORE
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LETTERS: Nikkei ‘enduring’ life in Louisiana
January 5, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Note: This letter was sent in response to the article entitled “The astonishing history of Japanese Americans in Louisiana,” which ran in two parts in November. Dear Editor, I was […] READ MORE
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LETTERS: Greetings from the Koharas
January 5, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Note: This letter was sent in response to the article entitled “The astonishing history of Japanese Americans in Louisiana,” which ran in two parts in November. Dear Editor, Thank you […] READ MORE
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An artst’s life — interrupted
January 1, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
SIGNS OF HOME: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita By Barbara Johns (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, 272 pp., $50, hardcover) The new book “Signs of Home,” […] READ MORE
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Little Tokyo in a nutshell
January 1, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES’S LITTLE TOKYO. LITTLE TOKYO HISTORICAL SOCIETY By Arcadia Publishing (Charleston, South Carolina: 2010, 127 pp., $21.99, paperback) Arcadia Publishing has captured a niche market publishing ethnic, local, and/or […] READ MORE
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