She Began with Japanese American History. Then She Made Things Up.

In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of ...
The New York Times

Frank Chuman, Pioneering Lawyer for Japanese American Rights, Dies at 105

He was sent to the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, an experience that inspired a long career in civil rights activism. Frank Chuman received an award in ...
The Conversation

Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025

The recent opening of an immigration centre in El Paso, Texas, has reignited protests of the Trump administration’s tough immigration plans from Japanese Americans. The internment camp, which opened ...
The Washington Post

Frank Chuman, who fought for Japanese American rights, is dead at 105

Frank Chuman, who as a California law student was incarcerated at a World War II detention center with others of Japanese descent, and who later spent more than a half-century at the forefront of ...
The New Yorker

The Novelist Reimagining the Japanese American Internment

In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, ...