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Go For Broke: Remembering My Own Japanese American War Hero

One dark night when I was living alone in my twenties, my mother phoned me at one a.m. to tell me to turn on the …

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“Under The Blood Red Sun”: The Hawai‘i-made World War II Film is a Valuable Story for All Ages

How do we keep Hawai‘i’s World War II story alive so that its lessons continue to resonate for generations to come? It’s a tough question …

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Farewell to Manzanar—DVD Introduces Film to a New Generation

The Actors’ Perspective

Farewell to Manzanar, adapted from the memoir that Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston penned with her husband, James D. Houston, tells the story of the injustice suffered …

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The Legacy of “Farewell to Manzanar”

“We never mentioned camp.”For nearly twenty-five years after the end of World War II, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston—and many other Japanese Americans imprisoned in concentration camps …

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The People I've Slept With: The Movie

When Quentin Lee (director/producer), Stanley Yung (producer), Karin Anna Cheung (the star), and I (writer/producer) met the first time, we knew right away that we …

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Nikkei Heritage

Grant Imahara Interview

Flashback to 1954: “Godzilla” makes its big screen debut. Directed by Ishiro Honda and produced by Toho Studios in Japan, the film, which featured a …