Welcome to the second season of “beyond generations,” an interview series. It’s my journey of discovering what happened to Japanese American people during WWII, and how people have been trying to acknowledge, understand, and learn from it, and figure out how to connect it to the future. I am your host, Monica. Today’s guest is David Yamaguchi. He is the editor of the North American Post, the community newspaper that has been serving Seattle's Japanese American Community since 1902. In this episode, David will talk about how a stack of family letters he found in his parents’ basement helped h ..read more

Welcome to the second season of “beyond generations,” an interview series. It’s my journey of discovering what happened to Japanese American people during WWII, and how people have been trying to acknowledge, understand, and learn from it, and figure out how to connect it to the future. I am your host, Monica. Today’s guest is Tamiko Nimura. She is a third generation Japanese American. She is a co-author of a graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.” She is also an organizer of the annual Day of Remembrance in Tacoma and Affiliate Professor of Urb ..read more

Do you know a book called Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet? It is a sweet love story between a Chinese American boy, Henry, and a Japanese American girl, Keiko, during World War II in Seattle. The novel was published in 2009, and spent two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. It was named the #1 Book Club pick in 2010 by the American Bookseller Association and is now read widely in schools all across the United States. Also, it has become “the book” to read among people in the Japanese American community in ..read more

Do you know there is a Japanese American student mural near the University of Washington campus? The center piece of the mural is a black-and-white photo of some 100 Asian American students taken in the autumn of 1941 at the University of Washington campus. Among them were many Japanese American students. A few months after the  photo was taken, the war between the United States and Japan started, and  these Japanese American students were taken to the wartime incarceration camps  just like other Japanese Americans were. But it seems that we do not know about their experiences a ..read more

In this episode of “beyond generations,” you will hear about some 440 former Japanese American students at the University of Washington who were forced out from the university due to the evacuation order put in place 80 years ago in 1942 during World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan the year before. You will also hear about someone who has been trying to keep their stories alive today and into the future. Your host, Monica, will take you on a journey of discovery of what happened to the Seattle community that she cares about. Join our community Instagram: @beyondgenerations ..read more

Introducing “beyond generations” - a podcast mini-series by Monica starting on Sunday, October 16, 2022. It is a journey of a Japanese student living in Seattle discovering what happened to Japanese American people in Seattle during World War II and how people have been trying to acknowledge, understand, and learn from it, and figure out how to connect it to the future. -------- Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay ..read more