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Archival research is often like gambling; either you get boxes of files that either contain golden information for your project, or a stack of dusty …
I get it. I understand. Traveling to someplace you’ve never been, where the culture and language is foreign to you, can be challenging. I know …
The late author and screenwriter James Clavell is best remembered these days for his series of bestselling novels set in Asia, most notably the 1975 …
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Wayne Mortimer Collins is an important name for my family. I first learned about this heroic, brash and outspoken attorney nearly twenty years ago while …
Read Part 2 >> TN: Do you think you make art as a way to fill in those gaps or to speak to these silences …
Read Part 1 >> TN: I’ve been starting to think about what it is to write memoir and I’ve really felt so strongly that you …
In Rea Tajiri’s documentary Wisdom Gone Wild, an elderly Nisei woman is sitting outside in a wheelchair. An installation of golden yellow streamers is billowing …
Among all the Japanese actors who graced Hollywood screens in the silent and early sound eras, perhaps none had such a charismatic and powerful presence …
In July, California State University Northridge senior Maren Elardo and her crew of fellow students in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts will begin …
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On Friday 18 November 2022, Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains and I held a film screening of the short film Whole (2019, dir. Bilal Kawazoe) at …
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