Detained throughout ten isolated “relocation centers”—a political euphemism for concentration camps—Japanese Americans were crowded into rickety wooden barracks amidst bleak deserts and inhospitable swamplands that offered little shelter from the harsh climates: the sweltering sun and frigid nights, the oppressive Arkansas humidity and turbulent Southwestern dust storms. Read More
In this Mercury News article, Jeanette Arakawa, author of The Little Exile, talks about her childhood experiences: being stigmatized after Pearl Harbor, the subsequent loss of her family's home and business, her time inside a Japanese American internment camp during WWII, and the impact this experience had on the rest of her life. Read More
The Baltimore anime convention Otakon has added writers Frederik L. Schodt and Roland Kelts to their lineup! Read More
The third volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!
A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback.
Marc Peter Keane's personal journey through 100 Japanese gardens, looking at them with a designer’s eye.
An American girl of Japanese ancestry is exiled in her own country after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
How to fold the famous Japanese Paper Crane and string 1,000 cranes, inspired by the story of Sadako and Hiroshima.
The first English translation of the groundbreaking 1931 graphic novel!
An unforgettable memoir of the horrors suffered by a Japanese family trapped in Changchun, China, at the end of WW2
A philosophical photo-essay and inquiry into Japanese rock gardens and what they might (and might not) mean.
