KYRA KARATSU
NIKKEIJIN
NIKKEIJIN (noun) : Japanese emigrants and their descendants who have created communities throughout the world.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which effectively removed and relocated more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent into desolate conditions. These are the stories of the incarcerated and their descendants.
1942年、フランクリン・D・ルーズベルト大統領は、エグゼクティブオーダー9066を署名しました。これにより、12万人以上の日系人が荒れ果てた状況に移送・収容されました。これは、収容された人々とその子孫たちの物語です。
リトル・トーキョー (LITTLE TOKYO)
A collection of photos from Little Tokyo, the historical heart for thousands of Japanese Americans.
We Hereby Refuse: The Illustrated Stories of Camp Resistance
“It’s the story of camp as you’ve never seen it before,” said Frank Abe, one of two authors of the upcoming graphic novel We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.
“I hope readers see that there were several paths to resistance, and none of them were easy,” Tamiko Nimura, the second author of the novel commissioned by the Wing Luke Museum, commented in a recent interview.
Blended into over 150 pages of art by illustrators Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki, We Hereby Refuse captures not only the wave of uncertainty that swept through the Japanese American incarceration camps during the second World War under Executive Order 9066, but also the remarkable surge of defiance that proliferated in response.
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Oh, Bachan, How Your Garden Grows
My great-grandmother and grandmother would have never lived to see my own theoretical grandchildren. In several decades’ time, their names would come and go like a swift summer’s breeze in the occasional conversation.
But, beyond their graves, I know that they would be so much more: a lesson on chopstick-holding, an insistence on dishing out leftovers, a reminder to give out your best loving.
As an anonymous Greek proverb says, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” And it is then I realize that the seeds they’ve sown have bloomed beautifully — for you, me, and all the generations to come.
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