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The House I Live In: Frank Sinatra and Japanese Americans
Archival research is often like gambling; either you get boxes of files that either contain golden …
Jonathan van Harmelen • Jan. 31, 2024
Nikkei film audiovisual creators
Today's world is a movie. Everyone consumes, through cinema, digital platforms and other media,…
Javier García Wong-Kit • Dec. 6, 2023
Interpreting Lost in Translation 20 years later
I get it. I understand. Traveling to someplace you’ve never been, where the culture and langu…
Gil Asakawa • Nov. 30, 2023
Beyond Shogun: James Clavell's Japanese American History
The late author and screenwriter James Clavell is best remembered these days for his series of be…
Greg Robinson • Nov. 14, 2023
One Fighting Irishman — A Conversation With Filmmaker Sharon Yamato
Wayne Mortimer Collins is an important name for my family. I first learned about this heroic, brash…
Tamiko Nimura • Oct. 17, 2023
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civil rights
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Japanese American National Museum
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One Fighting Irishman (film)
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Sharon Yamato
Tule Lake concentration camp
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Wayne Merrill Collins
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World War II camps
Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 3
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TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to t…
Tamiko Nimura • Sept. 10, 2023
Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 2
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TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I&…
Tamiko Nimura • Sept. 3, 2023
Wisdom Grown Wild: A Conversation with Filmmaker Rea Tajiri — Part 1
In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in …
Tamiko Nimura • Aug. 27, 2023
Sojin Kamiyama: The Man they called Sôjin
Among all the Japanese actors who graced Hollywood screens in the silent and early sound eras, perh…
Greg Robinson • July 12, 2023
REPRESENT!: “Ikigai” – Yonsei Filmmaker Makes Directing Debut
In July, California State University Northridge senior Maren Elardo and her crew of fellow students…
Jackie Kojima • July 11, 2023
