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Stage Adaptation Of “No-No Boy” Violates John Okada’s Novel

A headline first written by Frank Chin in 2010, “Don’t F**k With No-No Boy,” captures the insistence with which audiences should reject the recent stage …

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Author Hiroshi Kashiwagi: From Togan Soup to Plums Can Wait and Beyond, the Life of an American

“Why was I, an American citizen, thrown in prison without cause, without due process? I had registered for the draft, as required of citizens of …

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Yellow Soul

“There are many stories untold. Some are lost. Others will come up in the future.” (Excerpt from “Nodas in America” short story, Yokohama, California by …

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Hiroshi Kashiwagi Goes to Washington

For my father, Nisei playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi, the journey up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the heart of Washington, D.C. …

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From a Japanese American Literature Class at a German University

A short insight into the conflicts in John Okada’s No-No Boy

While attending the University of Wuppertal in Germany, I took a course where I learned about the history and development of Japanese Americans in the …

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Dare to Be Naive

R. Buckminster Fuller once wrote, “Dare to be naive.”In these days of non-stop irony, cynicism, and the constant overwhelming evidence that the fix is in, …