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We Have Been Here Before: A Speech for Tsuru for Solidarity and La Resistencia at the Northwest Detention Center

On Sunday, February 23, 2025, close to 300 people stood in the rain in front of the Northwest ICE…

Tamiko Nimura • March 16, 2025

collective behavior crowds demonstrations (political) deportations immigration people protests public meetings Tacoma Tamiko Nimura Tsuru for Solidarity (organization) United States Washington

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

No Murallas

Tkaronto/Toronto, Ontario-based writer-artist Erica Isomura lends us a moment of action captured in…

Erica Isomura +1 • Feb. 20, 2025

Canada collective behavior concentration camps crowds Day of Remembrance demonstrations (political) immigration literature Ontario people poems poetry protests public meetings Tacoma Toronto United States Washington World War II camps

A Sansei Selective Service Story

In my 73rd year, I began to gather memories of 1973 and the moments leading up to that time. Fifty …

Thomas M. Nishi • May 29, 2023

anti-war demonstrations British Columbia Burnaby Canada collective behavior crowds demonstrations (political) generations Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre people public meetings Sansei Vietnam War, 1961-1975 volunteerism

I Am a Rainbow! - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> A particular dance enthusiast who joined in on one of Kanemura’s epic Instagram dan…

Kristen Nemoto Jay • May 15, 2023

dance Hawai'i I Am a Rainbow! (book) Instagram LGBTQ+ Mark Kanemura Oahu online social networks pandemics people social media social networks United States

I Am a Rainbow! - Part 1

Darkness sets the stage. Costumes are prepped. Souvenirs are ready to be sold. A sold-out crowd wai…

Kristen Nemoto Jay • May 14, 2023

dance Hawai'i I Am a Rainbow! (book) Instagram LGBTQ+ Mark Kanemura Oahu online social networks pandemics people social media social networks United States

Interview with Emi Sasagawa, Author of Atomweight

Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has be…

John Endo Greenaway • May 10, 2023

authors British Columbia Canada Emi Sasagawa families fiction hapa identity Japanese Brazilians journalism journalists LGBTQ+ novels people racially mixed people Vancouver (B.C.) writers

The JABA Legacy Project: Justice Sabrina McKenna—The First Openly LGBTQ Asian American to Serve on a State Court of Last Resort

As the first openly LGBTQ Asian American to serve on a state court of last resort, Justice Sabrina …

Lana Kobayashi • Sept. 2, 2022

Asian Americans Hawai'i LGBTQ+ people United States

History of Seattle Nikkei Immigrants from The North American Times

Chapter 5: Expectations of the Japanese Consulate

In the last chapter, I introduced some notable people in Seattle's Japanese community who were feat…

Ikuo Shinmasu • May 6, 2022

Consul General of Japan Naokichi Matsunaga people Seattle United States Washington

Karen Maeda Allman: Connecting Community Through Books - Part 1

Karen Maeda Allman is the most prominent Japanese American promoter of books in the Greater Seattle…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • April 3, 2022

Elliott Bay Book Company Karen Maeda Allman LGBTQ+ people Seattle United States Washington

A ‘consequential’ collection of JA history

This is the second of two outstanding books by eminent historian and journalist Greg Robinson con…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 27, 2021

civil rights Greg Robinson LGBTQ+ newspapers Nichi Bei Weekly (newspaper) people The Unsung Great (book) World War II

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