Fred Korematsu Day, Magic Valley, and 99 Years
Celebrating Fred Korematsu Day.
Nearly a decade later, Japanese Americans continue to explore the parallels between the racial fallout from the 9/11 attacks and Executive Order 9066.
Remembering the Japanese American experience in Magic Valley before...
Scribblenauts and kabuki
A belated Christmas present for Japanese American internment camp sites.
West Coasters like their kabuki.
Good news for fans of Japanese boxing.
The popular video game Scribblenauts gets a Japanese makeover.
Artwork from famed Japanese American artist Jimmy...
Tea and sushi
Hawaii native Ryan Higa, also known as nigahiga, sets a new Youtube milestone with 3 million subscribers.
One interpreter explains the difficulties of speaking sushi.
The Japanese American National Museum puts a generational spin on tea.
If...
Lots of remembering
And . . . it's official.
"Don't forget us" - Tacoma's Nisei WWII veterans.
MFA student Kendra Arimoto has not forgotten about internment and is putting on a theater production on the subject.
Speaking of honoring the...
Like White on Rice
Former internees are helping decide how internment life should be presented to the public at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.
Speaking of internment, a granddaughter of a former internee asks some difficult questions on Minnesota...
Talking about whiskey and health
Healthy living: learning from the Japanese.
Talking Japanese with the help of an iPhone.
More recognition for Japanese whiskey.
A memorial wall remembering displaced Japanese Americans takes shape in Seattle.
Honoring the Kanrin Maru boat crew in San...
Baseball, Manzanar, and Silicon Valley
Seattle reacts to the firing of Don Wakamatsu, Major League Baseball's first Japanese American manager.
Irene Hirano Inouye, former president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, will talk to UH Mānoa professor emeritus...
Food for the soul and peace for the mind
Japanese American war experiences fill out one Amerasian school's curriculum in Okinawa.
Digging for internment history.
Seattle's food options just got a little tastier thanks to a little place called Seafood City.
Strolling through Little Tokyo in...
The whaling debate, slot machines, and global warming
Whaling in Japan: An age-old tradition on a taboo practice?
With two Japanese pitchers on their roster, communication is imperative for catchers on the New York Mets.
Does more sleep in Japan = less global warming?
According...
Kurt Suzuki and Writing About Japan
Oakland A's catcher and Maui native Kurt Suzuki never forgets where he is from.
Turn the volume on your computers up: Writing About Japan.
A documentary about groundbreaking Japanese American actor Jack Soo premieres in Sacramento.
Former...