“The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration” published today as a Penguin Classic
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by Frank Abe
4d ago
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration hits bookstore shelves today. You will finally be able to walk into a shop and buy a copy to take home. With their iconic black-and-white-and-orange covers, everyone has read or seen a Penguin Classic at some point in their lifetime. Whenever a character carries one in a movie, it’s ..read more
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Video livestream: Three short films on the Heart Mountain resisters
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by Frank Abe
6d ago
May 11, 2024 will be the 22nd anniversary of National JACL’s apology in 2002 to what Paul Tsuneishi liked to call the “resisters of conscience.” To mark the occasion, Kimiko Marr and Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages are producing a video livestream this Tuesday, May 14th, at 5:00 pm PDT/ 8:00 pm EDT that I’ve agreed ..read more
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Mystery writers honor John Okada at Left Coast Crime convention
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by Frank Abe
1M ago
In addition to the presentation of awards for best new mysteries, the writers and fans at the annual Left Coast Crime convention. also recognize a “Ghost of Honor,” someone who is no longer with us who inspires them. For their 2024 Seattle Shakedown convention in Bellevue, the writers and fans recognized novelist John Okada in ..read more
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Now online: the Fair Play Committee files from the National Archives
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by Frank Abe
1M ago
This year we observe the 80th anniversary of the trial of 63 members of the Fair Play Committee at Heart Mountain for draft resistance, and the subsequent trial of the FPC steering committee for conspiracy to counsel draft evasion. Now, thanks to six years of work by staff of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, we ..read more
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Five Events for the 2024 Day of Remembrance
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by Frank Abe
3M ago
Who knew when we started the Day of Remembrance that I’d still be talking about it 45 years later. Nevertheless, here we are, hitting the road for five DOR events in 2024. For further updates as the month progresses, check the Events page. SEATTLE, WA Monday, February 12, 2024, 6:00-8:00 pm UW Nikkei Student Union ..read more
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New animation puts drawings of “We Hereby Refuse” into motion
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by Frank Abe
5M ago
After two years in the making, congratulations to Shannon Gee and her team at the Seattle Channel for producing this animation of the Jim Akutsu story from We Hereby Refuse. The 14-minute video makes its cable-tv debut tonight at 7:00 pm as part of their award-winning “Community Stories” series. The animation very cleverly adds motion ..read more
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Project to translate and republish the literary magazines of Tule Lake
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by Frank Abe
5M ago
Tule Lake is the final frontier for the study of Japanese American incarceration. After 80 years, the Segregation Center at Tule Lake remains the least-understood and most-avoided subject in polite Japanese American society. And the fiction and poetry written by the Issei and Kibei Nisei during this tumultuous period and published in the camp’s literary ..read more
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Evoking the Postwar Seattle Chinatown of John Okada
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by Frank Abe
6M ago
THERE ARE STORES on King Street, which is one block to the south of Jackson Street. Over the stores are hotels housed in ugly structures of brick more black than red with age and neglect. The stores are cafes and open-faced groceries and taverns and dry goods shops, and then there are the stores with ..read more
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From Page to Stage: Adapting NO-NO BOY for Today’s Theater
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by Frank Abe
7M ago
Many thanks to Seattle Rep Literary Manager and Dramaturg Paul Adolphsen for so expertly leading the October 24 panel on our work to adapt John Okada’s No-No Boy for the theater. This was the second in the series of panels I’ve been curating for the Seattle Public Library on the occasion of the John Okada ..read more
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New adaptation of “NO-NO BOY” workshopped at Seattle Rep
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by Frank Abe
8M ago
One-hundred years ago today, John Okada was born in Seattle. It’s also a day on which I can finally share more about the script I’m developing for a new stage adaption of Okada’s landmark novel, No-No Boy. For four days this week I’ve had the privilege of working with the Seattle Rep, our flagship regional ..read more
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