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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Complicat(i)ng the 'mosaic' of history
This impressive volume, published at the semi-centennial of Asian American studies, serves admira…
June 29, 2018
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A Nikkei Incarceration Odyssey
The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i (JCCH) has been responsible — in part —…
June 12, 2018
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A Case Study of Heart Mountain’s Draft Resisters and Military Service
This is Mike Mackey’s fifth and, apparently, final book centered on the World War II experi…
May 11, 2018
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Hope amid hardship
This altogether beautiful book by noted Seattle-based art historian and curator Barbara Johns str…
April 30, 2018
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A historical survey of Asian Americans in the Heartland
In 2009, I published an article about Japanese Americans in the Interior West, a field earlier pi…
Nov. 22, 2017
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Groundbreaking fieldwork a guidebook to Nikkei journey of (further) discovery
In spite of being involved in researching and writing about Japanese American history for 45 years,…
Nov. 2, 2017
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‘Historical portrait’ adeptly conveys Nikkei’s lifestory
One of my favorite songs by country singer Hank Williams, Jr. — whose political and social …
Oct. 20, 2017
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Historian ‘illuminates’ JA history
In Kenji Taguma’s resplendent foreword to this latest of historian Greg Robinson’s ca…
June 7, 2017
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Changing Season: A Father, A Daughter, A Family Farm
In the mid-1980s, while researching the World War II incarceration experience of Americans of Jap…
May 3, 2017
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An “Immersion” Into Terminal Island Nikkei Lives
As an oral historian, I have always been addicted to reading obituaries, especially those relatin…
April 21, 2017
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