Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
All tagged Nisei
Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.
On one community in Livingston, California that still pounds New Year's mochi rice cakes the old way, and the soup they love, ozoni.
Essay marking the 70th anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066.
My look at the work of Japanese American artist Patrick Nagatani
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 review of Lane Hirabayashi's book, "Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens," about Hikaru Carl Iwasaki's WRA photographs
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.