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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 ...
Read Part 1 >> What does being Nikkei mean to you today? Being Nikkei today means being aware of who I am regarding my personal history ...
Nation of Birds What if our only home were the air And our wings flapping through it? And time the space we lived in And ...
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One intriguing aspect of Japanese immigrant experience before World War II was the diverse intellectual life of community members. Although most early Issei were farmers ...
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Read Part 1 >> May 15, 2017 Hi Brandon, I wonder if we both answer questions by adding to them, by writing more into them, by ...
2017 has been a Year of Remembrance in the Japanese American community, commemorating 75 years since the signing of Executive Order 9066. Many Days of ...
Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Naomi Hirahara is a writer with a love of Japanese American history. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in ...
I’ll always have a special love for Nina Revoyr’s writing. Her 2003 novel, Southland, was the first book I ever encountered by a ...
George “Horse” Yoshinaga, a longtime columnist for The Rafu Shimpo and The Kashu Mainichi, passed away peacefully on Monday at his home in Gardena. He ...
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In William Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, the heroine Juliet utters the famous phrase, “O happy dagger” just before killing herself over the ...
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