wartime incarceration
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CONFRONTING HEARTBREAK AT HEART MOUNTAIN: A family journey back to wartime incarceration site
August 15, 2024 by Ellen Kamei
Nearly 80 years after his birth behind barbed wire, my father returned to Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Three generations of our family, from ages 6 weeks to 79 years old, […] READ MORE
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Tule Lake Pilgrimage returns after six years
August 1, 2024 by Sharon Yamato
Tule Lake Pilgrimage, one of the most beloved and popular camp pilgrimages, returned after six long years of cautious absence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic with some attendees having registered […] READ MORE
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At Tule Lake, a moment of reflection and reckoning
August 1, 2024 by Carl Takei, Nichi Bei News
Over the July 4 weekend, I joined nearly 400 fellow pilgrims on the California-Oregon border for this year’s Tule Lake Pilgrimage. This site, unique among the World War II Japanese […] READ MORE
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Through a child’s eyes
July 18, 2024 by Lisa Tsukamoto
MY LOST FREEDOM: A JAPANESE AMERICAN WORLD WAR II STORY By George Takei, illustrated by Michelle Lee (New York: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2024, 47 pp., $19.99, hardcover) “My […] READ MORE
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How resilience and beauty shaped artist Ruth Asawa
July 18, 2024 by Wendi Yamashita, Nichi Bei News
RUTH ASAWA: AN ARTIST TAKES SHAPE By Sam Nakahira (Los Angeles: Getty Publications. 2024, 112 pp., $19.95, Hardcover) In her debut graphic novel, “Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape,” Sam […] READ MORE
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Voices of protest and dissent
July 18, 2024 by Rachel Endo
THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION By Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung (New York: Penguin Books, 2024, 314 pp. $20, paperback) Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung have curated a dynamic […] READ MORE
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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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Rethinking WWII incarceration narratives
July 18, 2024 by Chrissy Yee Lau
CARCERAL ENTANGLEMENTS: GENDERED PUBLIC MEMORIES OF JAPANESE AMERICAN WORLD WAR II INCARCERATION By Wendi Yamashita (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2024, 196 pp., $26.95, paperback) While scholarship on World War II […] READ MORE
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アマチ強制収容所へ巡礼の旅 今年３月、国定史跡に正式認定
June 20, 2024 by Nichi Bei Japanese Section
コロラド州南東部、グラナダ郊外にある第二次世界大戦時の日系人強制収容所、アマチへの巡礼が５月18日に行われた。今年3月、アマチは国立公園として正式に認定され、 READ MORE
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More than the pilgrimage
June 6, 2024 by Gil Asakawa, Nichi Bei News
A visit to the Amache National Historic Site needs to include a must-see stop at the Amache Museum, which John Hopper and the students at the Granada School’s Amache Preservation […] READ MORE
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