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A Chilling Nikkei Detective Thriller: Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda

Anchorage Homicide Detective DeHavilland Beans looks forward to starting every morning with coffee …

Darryl Mori • Dec. 16, 2024

Alaska authors crime fiction Kerri Hakoda mystery fiction United States writers

Nikkei Chronicles #13—Nikkei Names 2: Grace, Graça, Graciela, Megumi?

Kisaku Sakagami

When we see the letters that make up a person’s name, we also imagine the story behind them. Who na…

Ronel Hoffstot • Dec. 3, 2024

Alaska concentration camps Discover Nikkei families genealogy Idaho identity Ireichō Irei (project) Minidoka concentration camp names Nikkei Chronicles (series) Nikkei Names 2 (series) United States World War II World War II camps

Shelter Lodge

Many of us in Hawai‘i grumble about long commutes. But not many can beat Kaua‘i resident Kenji Yama…

Jackie Kojima • Aug. 4, 2023

Alaska camps dwellings fishing lodges Hawai'i Kaua‘i Kenji Yamada Shelter Island (Alaska) Shelter Lodge United States

Mercedes Luna: Thriving Within Her Rich Heritage - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Your father passed away in 2011 and left a huge legacy. Tell us about him. My fa…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • Jan. 31, 2023

Alaska American Indians culture Filipinos generations indigenous peoples Japanese museums Native Americans Seattle Tlingit Indians United States Washington Wing Luke Museum Yonsei

Mercedes Luna: Thriving Within Her Rich Heritage - Part 1

Mercedes Luna has come full circle, returning to work for the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacif…

Elaine Ikoma Ko • Jan. 30, 2023

Alaska American Indians culture Filipinos generations indigenous peoples Japanese museums Native Americans Seattle Tlingit Indians United States Washington Wing Luke Museum Yonsei

Quiet Warriors

Pat Hagiwara

“I feel lucky; my life was (lucky) all the way from my birth. In Alaska, I was growing up very clos…

Mikiko Amagai • April 7, 2021

442nd Regimental Combat Team Alaska armed forces Ketchikan Pat Hagiwara retired military personnel United States United States Army veterans

Documentarian Greg Chaney: Honoring Juneau’s Japanese Community Unjustly Incarcerated during World War II

“There were no Japanese Americans left in Juneau at that time. It was a moment when this communit…

Edward Yoshida • March 25, 2016

Alaska communities documentaries Empty Chair Memorial filmmakers films Japanese Americans John Tanaka Juneau reviews The Empty Chair (film) United States World War II

Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity

One for the History Books: Aleut-American Experience in WWII

“I just want it to go in the history books.” —Mary Bourdukofsky,…

Marla Williams • June 26, 2013

Alaska Aleuts imprisonment incarceration racism United States World War II World War II camps

An Interview with G.W. Kimura, Ph.D. -- New President/CEO of the Japanese American National Museum

“Although from far away, I have always felt close to the museum,” says Dr. G.W. (Greg) Kimura, the …

Darryl Mori • May 4, 2012

Alaska families hapa Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) racially mixed people United States

Frank and Nevelo Yasuda, Alaskan Mining Hall of Fame

“We stayed six months cumulatively in Point Barrow, Alaska for scientific research,” said an unexpe…

Rio Imamura • Feb. 6, 2012

Alaska An Alaskan Tale (book) Beaver Frank Yasuda generations Honshu immigrants immigration Inuit Issei Japan migration Miyagi Prefecture United States

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