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Warren Nishimoto retired in 2017 after 37 years as director of the Center for Oral History at the University of Hawai‘i. During the nearly four …
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I stopped writing the series “Quiet Warriors” unexpectedly. “Mikiko, you have a bad reputation,” Tosh Okamoto said when I called him for his turn. He …
In 2018, Mark Nakakihara founded the Zentoku Foundation, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving stories of various generations of Japanese Americans. The Zentoku …
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When Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa first in 2009 as members of the English Theatre acting company at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, they discovered …
Elmer Ogawa: After hours with Seattle’s forgotten photographer is a unique biography that captures both the remarkable life of an almost entirely unknown figure and …
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Here is another story about being mixed: My friend Cathy and I were chatting a bit after yoga class. A classmate came up to us: …
“On the side of the trunk was the name Shimizu, hand-painted in large white letters. It was opened for the curious crowd. … The new …
>> Part 1I emailed Rizzuto, who’s now a teacher at Goddard College in Vermont, where she teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program, to …
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In her book, Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook, writer Beverly Patt uses a unique format—a scrapbook—to tell the story of the friendship …
Part 1 >>Continuation of The Asian American Literary Review’s interview with Karen Tei Yamashita…Kandice Chuh (KC): You write, “I’ve anticipated the end of the story without …
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