so-called loyalty questionnaire
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Reckoning with the trauma of a family’s unjust incarceration
July 18, 2024 by Koji Lau-Ozawa
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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‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei is determined to keep telling his Japanese American story
June 6, 2024 by Associated Press
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO — The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World War II is a historical experience that has traumatized, and galvanized, […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: The ‘desecration of sacred ground’ at Topaz
August 19, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
I imagine many of you know the story of James Hatsuaki Wakasa, the man who a sentry killed while Wakasa was walking with his dog along the barbed wire fence […] READ MORE
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Cedrick Shimo, WWII military resister and Honda exec, dies at 100
April 9, 2020 by Nichi Bei News
Cedrick Masaki Shimo, a World War II military resister and an executive at American Honda Motors, USA, passed away peacefully on April 1, 2020. He was 100. Shimo was the […] READ MORE
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TULE LAKE ICON PASSES: Hiroshi Kashiwagi was a noted poet, playwright, author, actor and symbol of wartime resistance
November 7, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
When Hiroshi Kashiwagi was born in a boarding house in Sacramento, Calif. on Nov. 8, 1922, no one imagined that he would become a successful activist, writer, playwright, actor, and […] READ MORE
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Isao Tanaka, photographer and ‘No-no,’ dies
November 7, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Isao Tanaka, a so-called “No-no” who resisted the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and took countless community photographs that were featured in various media, passed away peacefully at his San […] READ MORE
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JACL votes to apologize to ‘Tule Lake resisters’
August 29, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
The Japanese American Citizens League voted Aug. 3 at its 50th National Convention in Salt Lake City to offer an apology to the “Tule Lake resisters” for its past ostracism […] READ MORE
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Japanese American Citizens League considers apology to Tule Lake resisters
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
Nearly two decades after passing a resolution addressing its past skeletons, a national Japanese American organization is once again set to confront its controversial actions during the war. The National […] READ MORE
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Nikkei literary pioneer re-examined
July 19, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
JOHN OKADA: THE LIFE AND REDISCOVERED WORK OF THE AUTHOR OF NO-NO BOY Edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson and Floyd Cheung (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018, 376 pp., […] READ MORE
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Let’s Talk … About standing up
February 1, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
I’m here in Honolulu to assist in interviewing my friend and inspiration, Mr. Hitoshi “Hank” Naito, a 93-year-young Nisei man whom I met several years ago while working on a […] READ MORE
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