JANM Photo Exhibit: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank
Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
Bon Yagi: Emperor of New York's Japanese East Village, Part 1
Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.
Mochitsuki: Japans Nostalgic New Years Tradition
On one community in Livingston, California that still pounds New Year's mochi rice cakes the old way, and the soup they love, ozoni.
The History Page: Order of Infamy
Essay marking the 70th anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066.
Retrospective: Magic and Beauty in the Art of Patrick Nagatani
My look at the work of Japanese American artist Patrick Nagatani
Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care Part IV: Seattles Nikkei Concerns
The final installment of my multi-part examination on West Coast Japanese eldercare
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care - Part III-1
Another installment in my series on Japanese-American eldercare, this time an examination of an innovative center in Sacramento
Friends With Differences: Lange and Adams at the Oakland Museum of California
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.
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care -- Part II-2
This is the second half of part two of my extremely long article on Nikkei eldercare on the West Coast.
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care -- Part II-1
This series became so long that Part II had to be subdivided, hence the strange headline.
James Mitsumori: One of Keiro Senior Healthcare's Founding Fathers
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.
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care -- Part I
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
Reclaiming Photographs of the WWII Japanese American Resettlement
My review of Lane Hirabayashi's book, "Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens," about Hikaru Carl Iwasaki's WRA photographs
Fund Offers a Chance to Pay Wartime Debt of Gratitude
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.