グレッグ・ロビンソン

(Greg Robinson)

Greg

ニューヨーク生まれのグレッグ・ロビンソン教授は、カナダ・モントリオールの主にフランス語を使用言語としているケベック大学モントリオール校の歴史学教授です。ロビンソン教授には、以下の著書があります。

『By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans』（ハーバード大学出版局 2001年）、『A Tragedy of Democracy; Japanese Confinement in North America』（コロンビア大学出版局 2009年）、『After Camp: Portraits in Postwar Japanese Life and Politics』 (カリフォルニア大学出版局 2012年)、『Pacific Citizens: Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era』（イリノイ大学出版局 2012年）、『The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches』（コロラド大学出版局、2016年）があり、詩選集『Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road』（ワシントン大学出版局 2008年）の共編者でもあります。『John Okada - The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy』（2018年、ワシントン大学出版）の共同編集も手掛けた。最新作には、『The Unsung Great: Portraits of Extraordinary Japanese Americans』（2020年、ワシントン大学出版）がある。連絡先：robinson.greg@uqam.ca.

（2021年７月更新）

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The Readmission: Toyohiko Kagawa’s 1950 US Tour

ボー・タオ, グレッグ・ロビンソン
2023年9月14日

Some time ago, we did a column for Discover Nikkei on the Japanese evangelist and social reformer Toyohiko Kagawa. During his lifetime, Kagawa was renowned as a prolific writer—he authored some 150 books—and apostle of Christian socialism. Because of the spiritual dimension he brought to his leadership of movements for social and economic justice in the pre-World War II period, his American missionary associates often referred to him as the “Gandhi of Japan”—though when Kagawa actually met Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1939, the two clashed over Kagawa’s reluc…

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Artist and Documentarian: The Life of Kango Takamura

ジョナサン・バン・ハーメルン, グレッグ・ロビンソン
2023年8月28日

What images come to mind when we think of the wartime experience of Japanese Americans? For many, the photographs produced by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams or Toyo Miyatake come to mind, with their unique portrayals of the human condition. Yet equally powerful and moving are the representations of the incarceration experience produced by the diverse crew of visual artists who worked in camp, including such figures as Miné Okubo and Chiura Obata. One artist who created striking images of confinement was Kango Takamura. A painter and photographer, Takamura was one of the few Issei t…

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Layle Lane: Black Woman Educator and Defender of Japanese Americans

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2023年8月10日

One crucial aspect of Nikkei history that has not received due recognition from community chroniclers is the close relations between Japanese Americans and blacks, and especially the disproportionate support that African Americans offered Nisei during the World War II period. In past columns, I have discussed the efforts of such outstanding figures as Hugh Macbeth, Loren Miller, and Howard Thurman to defend the rights of Japanese Americans. The activism of Black women was less visible, but arguably even more impressive, given their doubly marginal position in society. Such figures as la…

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Sadakichi Hartmann and Nisei Writers: An Early Mentor and Inspiration

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2023年7月27日

Floyd Cheung, my brilliant friend and sometime collaborator, is a devoted scholar of Asian American literature. I was intrigued recently when I came across his essay on the poet, art critic and onetime “King of Bohemia” Sadakichi Hartmann—a piece written in conjunction with the release of a volume of Hartmann’s poems edited by Floyd. In his essay, Floyd refers to Hartmann as a “missing link”: a groundbreaking modernist who helped bring Japanese poetic forms into English and to inspire poets such as Ezra Pound to take an interest. Yet Floyd notes that Har…

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Madame Sojin and Eddie Sojin: The Lives of Chie and Edo Mita

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2023年7月13日

In the first half of this segment, I traced the career of Hollywood silent film actor Sojin Kamiyama. In the second half, I would like to flesh out aspects of the intriguing (and largely unknown) careers of Sojin’s wife Uraji Yamakawa and their son Edo Heihachi Mita [Kamiyama], who combined acting with work in other creative fields. The woman who would gain fame as Uraji Yamakawa was born in Tokyo in 1885, the daughter of Morikazu and Komatsu Mita. Her birth name was Chie (Chiye). As a young woman, she trained at the Theater Institute. Upon her marriage to Tadashi Mita, she took…