Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he retired in 2008 as the director of the Center for Oral and Public History. Between 2001 and 2005, he served as Senior Historian at the Japanese American National Museum.
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Life in the Tule Lake Stockade
There now exists a richly diverse number of publications devoted to the World War II concentration …
Sept. 1, 2022
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Bio of Issei Journo Shines
Prior to reading this book, my knowledge about prominent Issei lawyer/journalist Sei Fujii derived …
Aug. 25, 2022
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‘Brilliant’ Work Relies on Oral Histories of Japanese American Hibakusha
In 1974, Betty Mitson and I co-edited a modest and virtually self-published and crudely fabricated …
Aug. 17, 2022
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A ‘Comprehensive Treatment’ of the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans
During the 1980s, I was privileged to co-direct the Honorable Stephen K. Tamura Orange County Japan…
Jan. 27, 2022
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The American Democratic and Multicultural Promise
In 1949, when I was 10 years old, my family moved from New Jersey to Goleta, Calif., where I enroll…
Jan. 13, 2022
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A ‘consequential’ collection of JA history
This is the second of two outstanding books by eminent historian and journalist Greg Robinson con…
Aug. 27, 2021
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Minding and mining the gaps of one family’s trauma
I immensely enjoyed and was greatly enlightened by Sansei psychotherapist Judy Kawamoto’s singula…
Aug. 13, 2021
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Book on Heart Mountain football team achieves brilliance
For a number of years I have been working on a sports and society book treating the social and cu…
July 30, 2021
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San Francisco J-Town’s redevelopment-era transformation
My first visit to San Francisco’s Japantown occurred in May 1974. It came about when I, along wit…
Feb. 8, 2021
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A ‘community study’ of Minidoka
During the May 1995 symposium that Mike Mackey organized in Powell, Wyoming on the wartime incarcer…
Jan. 25, 2021
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