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.
Nikkei Interests
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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…
June 23, 2015
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The ‘Invented Fiction’ of the Model Minority and the Controversy Behind the JA Creed
These books by Ellen Wu and Kristin Hass both assess a contested facet of Japanese American studies…
March 27, 2015
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442nd Regimental Combat Team
book reviews
concentration camps
draft resisters
Heart Mountain
Heart Mountain concentration camp
imprisonment
incarceration
Japanese American Citizens League
loyalty questionnaire
Mike Masaoka
model minority
National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II
no-no boys
Redress movement
resisters
reviews
stereotypes
United States
United States Army
World War II
World War II camps
Wyoming
442nd Regimental Combat Team
book reviews
concentration camps
draft resisters
Heart Mountain
Heart Mountain concentration camp
imprisonment
incarceration
Japanese American Citizens League
loyalty questionnaire
Mike Masaoka
model minority
National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II
no-no boys
Redress movement
resisters
reviews
stereotypes
United States
United States Army
World War II
World War II camps
Wyoming
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Stimulating an Appreciation of America’s Diverse History and Cultures Through Preservation
The most fitting way I can think of to begin this review of Mary Adams Urashima’s Historic Wi…
Dec. 12, 2014
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Exploring the Wartime Kibei-Nisei Struggles
“What I have attempted to introduce in (Show Me the Way Home),” writes Takako Day in th…
Dec. 26, 2014
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A Young Nisei’s Life, Reimagined
I knew of Gene Oishi, the Nisei author of Fox Drum Bebop, well before I actually met him. This was …
Nov. 25, 2014
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The Fruits of Santa Clara Valley’s Asian Laborers
As Cecilia Tsu tells readers in her cogent introduction, its underlying purpose is “recoverin…
Nov. 7, 2014
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An Intimate Look at the Life of ‘An American with a Japanese Face’
It is rare that I find myself reviewing a book on a friend of mine authored by still another friend…
Oct. 3, 2014
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Nisei Revisits Her Wartime Past Through Watercolors
Through a sophisticated blend of artwork, prose, and photographic images, plus an assortment of oth…
Sept. 12, 2014
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Nikkei History Meets Multi-generational Family Memoir
Although its publisher markets Looking after Minidoka as a “memoir,” this volume can la…
April 22, 2014
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‘Masterpiece’ Traces Battles Nikkei Fought for Justice
On the dust jacket of this volume, I am quoted as pronouncing it to be “a substantial contrib…
April 15, 2014
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Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
Arizona
armed forces
Arthur A. Hansen
authors
book reviews
California
concentration camps
Eileen Tamura
imprisonment
incarceration
Joseph Kurihara
Leupp isolation center
Manzanar concentration camp
Moab isolation center
postwar
renunciation
resistance
retired military personnel
reviews
Tule Lake concentration camp
United States
Utah
veterans
World War II
World War II camps
Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
Arizona
armed forces
Arthur A. Hansen
authors
book reviews
California
concentration camps
Eileen Tamura
imprisonment
incarceration
Joseph Kurihara
Leupp isolation center
Manzanar concentration camp
Moab isolation center
postwar
renunciation
resistance
retired military personnel
reviews
Tule Lake concentration camp
United States
Utah
veterans
World War II
World War II camps
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