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Chapter 2—A Writer in Boston

Read Chapter 1 As an enterprising editor of Harvard Illustrated, England sent a copy of the Novemb…

Aaron Cohen • Feb. 24, 2025

authors Boston generations Harvard University immigrants immigration Issei Japan literature Massachusetts migration plays poetry students United States writers

Ken Nakazawa Rediscovered

Part I—The Early Years

Prominent among the few Issei to be accepted in mainstream American culture in the years before Wor…

Greg Robinson • May 12, 2024

biographies California Fukushima Prefecture generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan journalism Los Angeles migration Oregon plays Portland (Or.) prewar Tohoku United States University of Southern California

Ginyu Igei, the life of a sensei in Peru that inspires a play in Okinawa

Ginyu Igei, the sensei and patriarch of the Nikkei community in Peru, has a life story to tell and …

Milagros Tsukayama Shinzato • Oct. 28, 2019

education Ginyu Igei Japan Kyuzo Toyama Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture Peru plays teachers teaching Uchinanchu

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives

When Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa first in 2009 as members of the English Theatre acting comp…

John Endo Greenaway • June 6, 2019

British Columbia Canada Canadian internment camps generations interviews Japanese Canadians Nisei plays Tashme internment camp Tashme Project (play) World War II camps

A Balancing Act - Tales of Clamor is daring examination of redress era in intimate setting

In the first moment of Tales of Clamor, Kennedy Kabasares, dressed as a Japanese immigrant, clamber…

Gwen Muranaka • Feb. 18, 2019

Allegiance (play) Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Japanese Americans law legislation plays Redress movement Tales of Clamor (play) United States World War II World War II camps

Valley of the Heart: A Reflection

When people ask me what it’s like to be doing Valley of the Heart by the Luis Valdez at the Mark Ta…

Scott Keiji Takeda • Dec. 14, 2018

acting actors artists Asian Americans East West Players (organization) entertainers identity imprisonment incarceration Mexican Americans plays Scott Takeda Valley of the Heart (play) World War II

How Happy Ending In Staged “No-No Boy” Bowdlerizes Okada’s Novel

Successfully adapting any work to the stage presents a challenge. The fact that it isn’t easy doesn…

Frank Abe • July 22, 2015

arts books John Okada Ken Narasaki library materials No-No Boy (book) No-No Boy (play) performing arts plays publications reviews theater

A Response to Frank Abe's Opinion

*Editor’s Note: Frank Abe shared his opinions about Ken Narasaki’s stage adaptation of No-No Boy by…

Ken Narasaki • July 22, 2015

arts books Frank Abe John Okada Ken Narasaki library materials No-No Boy (book) No-No Boy (play) performing arts plays publications reviews theater

Stage Adaptation Of “No-No Boy” Violates John Okada’s Novel

A headline first written by Frank Chin in 2010, “Don’t F**k With No-No Boy,” captures the insistenc…

Frank Abe • April 29, 2015

arts books draft resisters Frank Chin John Okada Ken Narasaki library materials loyalty questionnaire No-No Boy (book) No-No Boy (play) performing arts plays postwar publications resettlements resisters reviews theater World War II

A Response to Frank Abe's article

*Editor’s Note: Frank Abe shared his opinions about Ken Narasaki’s stage adaptation of No-No Boy by…

Ken Narasaki • April 29, 2015

Frank Abe Ken Narasaki No-No Boy (book) No-No Boy (play) plays

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