"To Jesse, with Love": Son Publishes Powell Street Diary
And underneath this sheltering bowl
We call the sky,
Do not lift up your finger;
For It moves as impotently as you or I.—Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), Persian poet and astronomer
At the 41st Powell Street Festival on August 5 & 6, 2017 in Vancouver, Junji Nishihata will be launching his father Jesse’s book Powell Street Diary: A Remembrance of Life Before Internment posthumously, in his Dad’s pre-WW2 childhood neighborhood, on this, the 75th anniversary of internment.
Junji has been working hard to make this book project come together for many years and, finally, pulled it together in the last …