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A Family of Artists - Part 2: The Goodenow Brothers Make Their Own Marks
Greg Robinson
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A Family of Artists - Part 1: Kyohei Inukai, Society Portraitist
Greg Robinson
One remarkable clan of artists is that of the Inukai-Goodenow family. It was formed by Kyōhei Inukai, a Japanese immigrant who became a popular society portrait painter (and fencing enthusiast) in 1920s New York, and his first wife Lucene Goodenow, a writer, painter and sculptor. Their three sons, who were …
Kinjiro Matsudaira: Mayor of Edmonston, Maryland
Greg Robinson, Jonathan van Harmelen
In the pre-World War II years, mainland Japanese Americans were all but absent from electoral office. Whereas in Hawaii there were Nisei representatives in the Territorial Assembly and even a Senator, Sanji Abe, those living elsewhere found endemic anti-Japanese prejudice an effective barrier to even running for elected office, though …
‘One mistaken and semi-Fascist regulation’ : The Debate over McGill University’s Wartime Exclusion of Japanese Canadians
Greg Robinson
One remarkable story that comes out of the wartime removal and dispossession of Japanese Canadians is that of their exclusion at McGill University. In fall 1944, McGill, the historic university in Montreal, became the first Canadian institution of higher education officially to close its doors to Japanese Canadian students. Its …
Laying Down the Law of Love: The 1936 American Tour of Toyohiko Kagawa
Greg Robinson, Bo Tao
It was the middle of December 1935. The Nippon Yusen liner Asama Maru had just concluded a fourteen-day voyage. After leaving Yokohama and stopping at a port of call in Honolulu, it arrived in San Francisco. As Asama Maru sailed into San Francisco Bay, its 800 passengers looked on, no …
How fair is “Fair Enough?” Westbrook Pegler and Japanese Americans - Part 2
Greg Robinson, Jonathan van Harmelen
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How fair is “Fair Enough?” Westbrook Pegler and Japanese Americans - Part 1
Greg Robinson, Jonathan van Harmelen
On March 28, 1945, the Manzanar Free Press ran a remarkable article relating to Japanese Americans. In discussing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Korematsu vs. United States, the text cited the noted (and notorious) newspaperman Westbrook Pegler, who had proclaimed in his nationally syndicated column “Fair …