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Although the saga of the Issei generation has been written by a number of historians, our understanding the views of Issei writers and thinkers on ...
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Read Part 3 >> So, here we are entering fall 2020 and the second wave of Covid-19 is upon Canada…. the inevitable has arrived. So, from ...
Read Part 1 >> T. John Fujii’s career in wartime Singapore, as discussed in his book Singapore Assignment, offers a stark lesson in the ambiguity ...
The story of Tatsuki John Fujii, a journeyman writer and journalist who was one of the earliest Nisei book authors, offers a rich illustration of ...
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Read Part 2 >> 5. Floyd Dell Floyd Dell, an Illinoian and editor of Friday Literary Review, a weekly supplement of The Chicago Evening Post, also ...
Read Part 1 >> 3. Suicidal temptations and rebirth By June 1909, having lost hope and with no meaning to his life, Maedako attempted to commit ...
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, once proclaimed “America’s most influential proletarian novel,”1 was translated into the Japanese language by proletariat writer Hiroichiro Maedako ...
Throughout the 20th century, Nikkei writers have dreamed of writing “the Great Nisei novel,” a work of literature that would express the Japanese/American experience ...
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The artist Mine Okubo is most famous for her book, Citizen 13660, a graphic memoir of the Japanese American concentration camps. She became my hero ...
Human life – indeed all life – is poetry. It’s we who live it, unconsciously, day by day, like scenes in a play, yet in its ...
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