Japanese American history
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‘Kikan — The Homecoming’ retraces a San Francisco Nikkei tale
August 15, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Japanese American filmmaker Kerwin Berk plans to premiere his latest film “Kikan – the Homecoming” Aug. 18 in San Francisco’s Japantown. Set in the 1940s, Berk tells the story of Jimmy Ibata (Ryan Takemiya), a Japanese American soldier returning to America after fighting in Europe with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. “Kikan” features a multi-generational… READ MORE
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Safekeeping ‘treasures’ and their stories for future generations
March 11, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
“You can’t take it with you but you can leave it behind with meaning and purpose,” Rosalyn Tonai told a room of more than a dozen people gathered for […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Kiyoshi Okamoto, an unsung hero of the camp resistance movement
January 20, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
It was a solemn and moving ceremony in a Buddhist church last month, the funeral for Frank Emi. At 94, his time had come, and so a steadfast American patriot […] READ MORE
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Remembering Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee leader Frank Emi
December 16, 2010 by Nichi Bei News
Frank Seishi Emi was a fighter. The word “retreat” was not in Frank’s vocabulary. He, and he alone, would decide when it was time to move on. Sadly, that time […] READ MORE
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Artist shares camp memories in Japanese American Museum of SJ exhibit
November 25, 2010 by Nichi Bei News
Artist Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz was 9 years old when she and her family were uprooted from their home in Orange, Calif. and incarcerated in a wartime concentration camp […] READ MORE
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Journey Back to Topaz: Former inmates take pilgrimage to former Central Utah concentration camp
September 30, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
Although May Saito Takashima was only 9 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked, that Sunday is seared into her memory. “That’s when I became a ‘Jap’ overnight,” said Takashima, […] READ MORE
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Going back to ‘Ground Zero’ called Topaz
September 30, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
This past August, Ken Yoshida went back to Topaz, Utah, where, in 1944, an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent picked him up. “The FBI agent came inside our barrack because […] READ MORE
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Bill establishes Jan. 30 as Fred Korematsu Day
September 30, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
Sacramento — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sept. 23 signed Assembly Bill 1775, which establishes Jan. 30 as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. The bill uses the […] READ MORE
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Japanese American WWII students at City College of SF sought for diploma project
September 30, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
The California Nisei College Diploma Project (CA Nisei Project) is seeking to locate those Japanese Americans whose studies at the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) were halted due to […] READ MORE
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Nisei hibakusha reflects upon wartime experience during Topaz pilgrimage
September 30, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
To recognize the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jack Dairiki, a Nisei hibakusha on the Topaz pilgrimage bus, shared his experiences. When Dairiki was in […] READ MORE
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