Greg Robinson

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Greg Robinson, nativo de Nueva York, es profesor de historia en la Universidad de Quebec en Montreal , una institución franco-parlante de Montreal, Canadá. Él es autor de los libros By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Editorial de la Universidad de Harvard, 2001), A Tragedy of Democracy; Japanese Confinement in North America (Editorial de la Universidad de Columbia, 2009), After Camp: Portraits in Postwar Japanese Life and Politics (Editorial de la Universidad de California, 2012), y Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era (Editorial de la Universidad de Illinois, 2012), The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches (Editorial de la Universidad de Colorado, 2016), y coeditor de la antología Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road (Editorial de la Universidad de Washington, 2008). Robinson es además coeditor del volumen de John Okada - The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (Editorial del Universidad de Washington, 2018). El último libro de Robinson es una antología de sus columnas, The Unsung Great: Portraits of Extraordinary Japanese Americans (Editorial del Universidad de Washington, 2020). Puede ser contactado al email robinson.greg@uqam.ca.

Última actualización en julio de 2021

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Paul Takagi: A Centenary Remembrance

Por Greg Robinson
3 May 2023

May 3, 2023 marks the 100th birthday of the late Bay Area scholar and advocate Paul Takagi. As professor at UC Berkeley, Paul helped shape the university’s School of Criminology, adopting the “crime and social justice” approach of Radical Criminology. In Fall 1969, he taught the first course in Asian American Studies at Berkeley, helping usher in a new field of study nationwide. Meanwhile, Paul and his wife Mary Ann Takagi, together with Raymond Okamura, helped lead the fight to repeal Title II of the 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act, and provided support for Japanese Am…

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Of Inomatas and Kingis: The Story of a Remarkable Family

Por Greg Robinson
30 Mar 2023

If ever there was an award offered for the most remarkable Japanese American family saga, one formidable contender would be that of the Inomata clan, as revealed in the book Pure Winds, Bright Moon, by Kinji Inomata, as well as supplementary documents. Their history defies simple-minded ideas about Japanese Americans, their lives, and their interactions with other groups. The family story starts with a Japanese boy named Kenji Inomata. He was born in 1885 in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan, the son of Tuna Kuga-Inomata and Usuke Inomata. Kenji’s father died suddenly while on a trip in 18…

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Postwar Japanese Emigration to the Dominican Republic — Part 2: The Japanese American Response

Por Greg Robinson
13 Mar 2023

Read Part 1 >> As mentioned, the Japanese government’s postwar project to resettle Japanese citizens in the Dominican Republic, which was troubled from the outset, collapsed in mid-1961 after the assassination of Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo. Within a year, more than half the people involved returned to Japan, while the largest fraction of the others moved to Brazil or other countries. One of the few shining elements of the story is that of the impressive mobilization of the Japanese American community to assist the refugees. In October 1961, as ships arrived in th…

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Postwar Japanese Emigration to the Dominican Republic — Part 1: A Tragic Tale

Por Greg Robinson
12 Mar 2023

A tragic episode in the transnational history of Nikkei in the Americas is that of the Japanese colonists who settled in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s and their return after 1961.1 The story of postwar Dominican colonization has been extensively recounted in different ways (and languages), by scholars such as Valentina Peguero, Toake Endoh, Alberto Despradel, and Chutaro Kobayashi, but it is useful to offer here some larger context, and then to speak of a rare positive aspect of these events: the mobilization by Japanese American communities to provide aid for the refugees. The st…

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Yoshie Fujiwara and Japanese Americans II: A Day at the (Olympic) Races

Por Greg Robinson
24 Feb 2023

Read Part 1 >> In the period after 1932, Yoshie Fujiwara made Japan his primary residence. In these years, he founded the Fujiwara Opera company, which thereafter remained central to his artistic and business activity. He later asserted that in its first years, the new company suffered annual losses of $240,000, as Japanese audiences were hesitant to buy tickets for opera performances, so he had to take outside singing gigs to help make up deficits. Meanwhile, amidst the Japanese military buildup and expansion in Asia, he became engaged as a semiofficial cultural ambassador for Japa…