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Gratitude for Art Hansen—“A Gifted Mentor and Inspiration”

Among specialists in Japanese American history, few have made such an enduring contribution as Arth…

Greg Robinson +1 • March 18, 2024

Arthur A. Hansen historians life interviews oral histories scholars

Historian Arthur A. Hansen on his latest book, Manzanar Mosaic

Arthur Hansen has spent the past 50 years researching and writing about the World War II Japanese A…

Nancy Matsumoto • Oct. 26, 2023

Arthur A. Hansen California concentration camps Elaine Black Yoneda Harry Y. Ueno Karl G. Yoneda life interviews Manzanar concentration camp Manzanar Mosaic (book) oral histories Sue Kunitomi Embrey Togo W. Tanaka United States World War II camps

An Inquiry into the Kibei-Nisei ‘Diasporic Experiences’

I feel a close kinship with this remarkable book by Michael R. Jin. In 2013, I was privileged to re…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Aug. 1, 2023

Arthur A. Hansen book reviews Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless (book) generations human geography Japanese Americans Japanese diaspora Kibei Michael R. Jin Nisei prewar reviews transnationalism World War II

Book review: Beyond the Betrayal, The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

Yoshito Kuromiya was one of 63 Nisei who resisted being drafted during World War II from the Heart …

Pamela A. Okano • March 31, 2023

Arthur A. Hansen Beyond the Betrayal (book) biographies book reviews draft resisters Heart Mountain Heart Mountain concentration camp Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee memoirs resisters reviews United States World War II camps Wyoming Yoshito Kuromiya

Saving the Voices of the Past: An Interview with Arthur Hansen

On June 4, 2022, the Japanese American National Museum will host an event in celebration of the p…

Jonathan van Harmelen • May 20, 2022

Arthur A. Hansen Beyond the Betrayal (book) historians Yoshito Kuromiya

Ten Days of Cleanup

Chapter Seven—No-knead Bread

“Do you think this Ryan Stone is a real person?” my daughter Sycamore asked me as we took a break f…

Naomi Hirahara • June 4, 2021

Arthur A. Hansen Brian Niiya fiction Nancy Ito Naomi Hirahara softball

New Memoir Celebrates the Life of Nisei Resister Jimmie Omura

“The most heroic figures in U.S. history, although not always fully appreciated or roundly honore…

Kimiko Medlock • Aug. 10, 2018

Arthur A. Hansen draft resisters James Omura Japanese American Citizens League journalism journalists Nisei Naysayer (book) resisters World War II

An “Immersion” Into Terminal Island Nikkei Lives

As an oral historian, I have always been addicted to reading obituaries, especially those relatin…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • April 21, 2017

aquatic sports Arthur A. Hansen book reviews California communities fishing imprisonment incarceration Los Angeles Masaaki Kuwabara Naomi Hirahara newspapers Nichi Bei Weekly (newspaper) reviews Terminal Island Tujunga Tuna Canyon Detention Station United States World War II World War II camps

San Jose Japantown ‘Stand(s) on Giants’ Shoulders

While perusing this beautiful and bountiful 470-page tome affording its lucky readers a temporal, s…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Oct. 21, 2015

Arthur A. Hansen book reviews books California communities Japantowns library materials publications reviews San Jose San Jose Japantown United States

HATSUMI: One Grandmother’s Journey through the Japanese Canadian Internment

The World War II exclusion and detention experience of Japanese Americans is now fairly widely fami…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • June 23, 2015

Arthur A. Hansen Chris Hope documentaries films Hatsumi (film) Japanese Canadians reviews World War II

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