The study of relations between Chinese and Japanese Americans during WWII is a small yet growing field. Although both immigrant communities shared experiences of racial discrimination, tensions ...

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Mollie Oto is one of those rare people of whom it could be said was truly irreplaceable. But though her recent passing saddened so many, it remains a consolation she will live on in the hearts and ...

The recently re-released film, “Issei: The First Generation,” is now available on DVD for individual or institutional purchase. The film is based on rare and candid interviews with immigrant Issei ...

Sansei (third generation American born) Japanese Americans often have prior family histories that have been blacked out; their Nisei (second generation) parents who were imprisoned by the U.S.

Kenji Oshima coaches people who are suffering with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and he also teaches Buddhism (Dharma). Both methods of helping ...

Irene Hirano Inouye, the widow of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, died April 7 after an extended illness, according to the U.S.-Japan Council. Hirano Inouye, born in 1948, was the president of the ...

Base­ball in California: A History” by Kerry Yo Nakagawa has just been published by The History Press. The book includes a pref­ace by the late actor Noriyuki “Pat” Morita and a foreword by former New ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wendy Mink, daughter of Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink (D-Hawaii), received on Nov. 24, the Presidential Medal of Freedom on her mother’s behalf from President Barack Obama in the East ...

Sonia Prasad Quesada found a unique way to thank a departed ancestor for contributions to her life as well as the country and to pay tribute to the struggles her grandfather faced in the early 1900’s ...