Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.
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Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.
Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.
My mother's reaction to returning to a WWII U.S. government prison camp 70 years after her release.
The Sansei artist opens a show in New York.
I review psychologist Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu's latest book, on mixed-race Asian Americans
My look at the work of Japanese American artist Patrick Nagatani
Documenting Manzanar: Exploring the World War II prison camp through the images of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake
The first of an 18-part essay series on the images of three photographers who documented the World War II U.S. government prison camp Manzanar: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake. Like Miyatake, my father and his entire family were imprisoned at Manzanar during the war.
My contribution to DN's collection of stories about the devastating 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami
The final installment of my multi-part examination on West Coast Japanese eldercare
Another installment in my series on Japanese-American eldercare, this time an examination of an innovative center in Sacramento
I visit a fascinating little exhibit at the Museum of the Cityof New York, which recalls a time when sword-bearing Japanese envoys strode the streets of Manhatttan.
This is a short post that grew out of my research into documentary photographs taken of the California prison camp Manzanar, where people of Japanese descent were placed during World War II.
This is the second half of part two of my extremely long article on Nikkei eldercare on the West Coast.
This series became so long that Part II had to be subdivided, hence the strange headline.
Profile of Nissei James Mitsumori's role in launching Los Angeles' first Nikkei eldercare facility, and a glimpse into the fascinating story of the first Japanese Hospital in L.A.
What I planned as one article on Keiro Senior Healthcare in Los Angeles turned into a multi-part series covering Nikkei eldercare all along the West Coast. This article was reposted on the sites New America Media and Redwood Age
My account of a New York Public Library Q&A with NYU history professor Linda Gordon, including her views on the prickly relationship between Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams
My review of Lane Hirabayashi's book, "Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens," about Hikaru Carl Iwasaki's WRA photographs