WWII
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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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Padres catcher Kyle Higashioka receives replica medal for grandfather’s WWII service
August 1, 2024 by Associated Press
By PATRICK STEVENS Associated Press WASHINGTON — San Diego Padres catcher Kyle Higashioka received a replica of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to his grandfather’s World War II unit July […] 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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‘Kintsukuroi,’ feature film about JA experience, coming to Sacramento June 30
June 20, 2024 by Soji Kashiwagi, Nichi Bei News
Of all the films Nikkei writer/director Kerwin Berk has made, he says his latest film, “Kintsukuroi,” is by far his most rewarding due to the participation of an almost all-Nikkei […] READ MORE
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