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A Response to Frank Abe's article
*Editor’s Note: Frank Abe shared his opinions about Ken Narasaki’s stage adaptation of …

Ken Narasaki • April 29, 2015

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Frank Abe Ken Narasaki No-No Boy (book) No-No Boy (play) plays
Frank Abe Ken Narasaki No-No Boy (book) No-No Boy (play) plays
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Hollywood Veteran Chris Tashima Looks Back on His Filmmaking Career
In a sharp black tuxedo and matching bowtie, Chris Tashima takes the stage at the 1998 Academy Awar…

Luke Galati • Jan. 30, 2015

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Academy Awards (motion pictures) acting actors artists Chris Tashima East West Players (organization) entertainers film directors judges Lil Tokyo Reporter (film) Under the Blood Red Sun (film) Visas and Virtue (film) Wallace Tashima
Academy Awards (motion pictures) acting actors artists Chris Tashima East West Players (organization) entertainers film directors judges Lil Tokyo Reporter (film) Under the Blood Red Sun (film) Visas and Virtue (film) Wallace Tashima
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Internment: A Passion Project
There is a script floating around Hollywood with Japanese Americans as central characters and the d…

Cathy Haruka Uechi • Jan. 22, 2015

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acting actors artists authors communication concentration camps entertainers Executive Order 9066 executive orders Figure 8 (play) generations hapa Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) information theory Lydia in Bed (play) Phinneas Kiyomura playwrights racially mixed people screenwriting scripts sociology telecommunication television Theater of Note United States World War II camps writers Yonsei
acting actors artists authors communication concentration camps entertainers Executive Order 9066 executive orders Figure 8 (play) generations hapa Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) information theory Lydia in Bed (play) Phinneas Kiyomura playwrights racially mixed people screenwriting scripts sociology telecommunication television Theater of Note United States World War II camps writers Yonsei
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Unraveling Family Mysteries: Paul Nakadate and the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee
It all began while doing research for a film on Stanley Hayami, the bright and promising young man …

Sharon Yamato • Jan. 13, 2015

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draft resisters families Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee Paul Nakadate resisters United States World War II World War II camps Wyoming
draft resisters families Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee Paul Nakadate resisters United States World War II World War II camps Wyoming
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Nanka Nikkei Voices
VC – A Quarter Century in Little Tokyo
Twenty-five years have passed in what seems only a few moments: the Little Tokyo years of VC. Its f…

John Esaki +1 • May 8, 2014

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1970s 1980s Amy Kato arts Asian Americans buildings California churches communities East West Players (organization) films Hito Hata (film) Japanese American Historical Society of Southern California John Esaki Little Tokyo Los Angeles media Nanaka Nikkei Voices (series) Redress movement Robert Nakamura Steve Tatsukawa Union Church of Los Angeles United States videography videos Visual Communications (organization)
1970s 1980s Amy Kato arts Asian Americans buildings California churches communities East West Players (organization) films Hito Hata (film) Japanese American Historical Society of Southern California John Esaki Little Tokyo Los Angeles media Nanaka Nikkei Voices (series) Redress movement Robert Nakamura Steve Tatsukawa Union Church of Los Angeles United States videography videos Visual Communications (organization)
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Japanese American National Museum Magazine
More Than A Game – Sport in the Japanese American Community, 1885 to Present - Part 2
Read Part 1 >> “BASEBALL SAVED US” The coming of World War II brought upheaval …

Brian Niiya • May 2, 2014

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athletics baseball basketball boxing coaches combat discrimination imprisonment incarceration interpersonal relations judo martial arts Olympics sports sumo swimming tennis weight lifting World War II World War II camps wrestling
athletics baseball basketball boxing coaches combat discrimination imprisonment incarceration interpersonal relations judo martial arts Olympics sports sumo swimming tennis weight lifting World War II World War II camps wrestling
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Japanese American National Museum Magazine
More Than A Game – Sport in the Japanese American Community, 1885 to Present - Part 1
Sport has played a major role in the life of Japanese American communities from the first establish…

Brian Niiya • May 1, 2014

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athletics baseball basketball boxing coaches combat discrimination imprisonment incarceration interpersonal relations judo martial arts Olympics sports sumo swimming tennis weight lifting World War II World War II camps wrestling
athletics baseball basketball boxing coaches combat discrimination imprisonment incarceration interpersonal relations judo martial arts Olympics sports sumo swimming tennis weight lifting World War II World War II camps wrestling
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Nikkei Chronicles #2—Nikkei+: Stories of Mixed Language, Traditions, Generations & Race
アメリカ人のお宅 (American Otaku)
When I was a boy, I felt disconnected from the kids in Northern Michigan. I played with Star Wars a…

Jackson Bliss • Sept. 20, 2013

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animation anime comics cosplay culture Discover Nikkei diversity fans (persons) games geeks graphic novels hapa identity internet manga masculinity Michigan nerds Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei+ (series) otaku racially mixed people United States video games wide area networks
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Tea, With Music -- Interview with Yumi Iwama
In Tea, With Music, actress Yumi Iwama plays Setsuko Banks, a Japanese war bride. This role was a p…

Melissa Kim • Dec. 3, 2012

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acting actors artists arts brides East West Players (organization) entertainers identity musicals performing arts plays Tea with Music (play) theater Velina Hasu Houston war brides wives Yumi Iwama
acting actors artists arts brides East West Players (organization) entertainers identity musicals performing arts plays Tea with Music (play) theater Velina Hasu Houston war brides wives Yumi Iwama
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Pan Asian Repertory’s Plays in Progress Gives Life to “No-No Boy”
Two months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued…

Tamio Spiegel • Nov. 29, 2012

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authors John Okada Ken Narasaki New York (state) no-no boys Pan Asian Repertory Theatre plays playwrights United States World War II
authors John Okada Ken Narasaki New York (state) no-no boys Pan Asian Repertory Theatre plays playwrights United States World War II
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