Revisiting Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray: An interview with Robert Nakamura and Karen Ishizuka
Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.
JANM Photo Exhibit: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank
Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
Bon Yagi: Emperor of New York's Japanese East Village, Part 1
Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.
Bon Yagi: Emperor of New York's Japanese East Village - Part 2
Profile of the entrepreneur who has, over the past 30 years, shaped the East Village's Japan Town.
A Mother's Farewell to Heart Mountain
My mother's reaction to returning to a WWII U.S. government prison camp 70 years after her release.
Roger Shimomura, Artist, Collector
The Sansei artist opens a show in New York.
Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender
I review psychologist Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu's latest book, on mixed-race Asian Americans
Retrospective: Magic and Beauty in the Art of Patrick Nagatani
My look at the work of Japanese American artist Patrick Nagatani
Documenting Manzanar: Exploring the World War II prison camp through the images of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake
The first of an 18-part essay series on the images of three photographers who documented the World War II U.S. government prison camp Manzanar: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake. Like Miyatake, my father and his entire family were imprisoned at Manzanar during the war.
Reaching out to relatives and friends after the Great Tohoku Earthquake
My contribution to DN's collection of stories about the devastating 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami
Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care Part IV: Seattles Nikkei Concerns
The final installment of my multi-part examination on West Coast Japanese eldercare
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care - Part III-1
Another installment in my series on Japanese-American eldercare, this time an examination of an innovative center in Sacramento
When Samurai Walked the Streeets of New York
I visit a fascinating little exhibit at the Museum of the Cityof New York, which recalls a time when sword-bearing Japanese envoys strode the streets of Manhatttan.
Friends With Differences: Lange and Adams at the Oakland Museum of California
This is a short post that grew out of my research into documentary photographs taken of the California prison camp Manzanar, where people of Japanese descent were placed during World War II.
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care -- Part II-2
This is the second half of part two of my extremely long article on Nikkei eldercare on the West Coast.
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care -- Part II-1
This series became so long that Part II had to be subdivided, hence the strange headline.
James Mitsumori: One of Keiro Senior Healthcare's Founding Fathers
Profile of Nissei James Mitsumori's role in launching Los Angeles' first Nikkei eldercare facility, and a glimpse into the fascinating story of the first Japanese Hospital in L.A.
West Coast Nikkei Eldercare: Planning for New and More Diverse Systems of Care -- Part I
What I planned as one article on Keiro Senior Healthcare in Los Angeles turned into a multi-part series covering Nikkei eldercare all along the West Coast. This article was reposted on the sites New America Media and Redwood Age
Historian Linda Gordon's new Dorothea Lange bio
My account of a New York Public Library Q&A with NYU history professor Linda Gordon, including her views on the prickly relationship between Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams
Reclaiming Photographs of the WWII Japanese American Resettlement
My review of Lane Hirabayashi's book, "Japanese American Resettlement Through the Lens," about Hikaru Carl Iwasaki's WRA photographs