In the early part of the 20th century Japanese American baseball teams originally formed partly because of racism—-Caucasian players would not allow Japanese Americans to participate in the Anglo ...

One of the more difficult questions historian are asked is not about history itself, but their work as historians: “Why do you write about this topic?” Of course, like other people who study history, ...

During World War II the U.S. Government decided to lock up 120,000 mostly Japanese American citizens living along the West Coast for suspected disloyalty. Oshima’s family including his father William ...

The Sacramento Hiroshima Nikkeijin Kai held a special memorial service on Aug. 2 to honor the 140,000 people killed in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Mary Ann Miyao planned the program for this Buddhist ...

Thanks to the activism of Barbara Takei and Konrad Aderer’s film Resistance at Tule Lake, the story has become recognized. This week, I had the chance to interview teacher and activist Henry Kaku ...

The subscription rate is $45 for one year, 24 issues, mailed USPS First Class. NikkeiWest is normally published and sent to the post office on the 10th and 25th of each month. Publishing days may ...

By John Sammon Kenny Hirata will tell you the most important thing to becoming a great race car driver is to concentrate, concentrate---on winning. “When that light turns green, if you don’t jump on ...

Growing up near San Jose’s Japantown, Michael was surrounded by dozens of uncles and aunts, and 34 Okagaki and Saito first cousins. His Auntie Janet taught Michael how to fish; his Uncles Calvin and ...

The Japanese women who met and married American servicemen on occupation duty in Japan after the close of World War II faced duel heartbreaks, ostracized by their own countrymen, and then migrating to ...

Jim Morita a concentration camp survivor of World War II was old enough at the time to see the impact imprisonment made on the inmates. The heartbreak among the older prisoners was evident. “I could ...

In 1942 during World War II the U.S. Government decided that 100,000 Japanese Americans most of them U.S. citizens living along the West Coast were guilty of treason. They were deported to over a ...

Northern California's Japanese American Newspaper ...