AMC’s series about the Japanese American internment ends with a message about the importance of remembering the past. But it forgets the historical horror at the heart of the show.
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Art and the Creation of a Resilient Japanese American Spirit
During the World War II incarceration of west coast Japanese Americans, countless artists found their lives shattered, shunted behind barbed wire. Some of them went on to achieve fame. As a group, they exerted an outsized influence on American art and design, yet rarely spoke of their incarceration experience.
Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.
Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
A spunky dance school in South Brooklyn fights to survive after Hurricane Sandy.
The Sansei artist opens a show in New York.
My exploration of the Japanese New Year's foods known as osechi, and where to find them in New York.
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
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
I join the 40th annual Manzanar pilgrimage and visit the site of the World War II internment camp that once housed my father and his family.
Second-generation Japanese Americans set up a scholarship fund in honor of the generosity shown to them by the Quakers during the time of their World War II incarceration in American internment camps.
An anchor of the Little Tokyo community, Amerasia Bookstore closes after 21 years in business.