On this month’s episode of the “Nichi Bei Café”: Meet the Athletics’ rookie Joshua Kuroda-Grauer, Ryan Kimura, the JCCCNC’s new executive director and Elena Nielsen, who created a multiracial Nikkei community in Japan: https://t.co/8eUXE9iz85
“While obtaining ALL records for your family members helps create a fuller, more accurate narrative, the Evacuee Case Files are central to piecing together a timeline of someone’s life leading up to and during incarceration.” https://t.co/xc5AZX6Tha
Please join us as we “document and defend our community’s history against erasure, empower future generations through education and cultural programming and build long-term resilience in a time of rising threats.” https://t.co/TerIA3KdNN
“'The Literature of Japanese Americans Incarceration'” is one of the most significant, timely, and urgent works of our generation that raises necessary questions about the future of 'We the People of the United States.'” https://t.co/jX3CIznvN1 @FrankAbe
Do you have photos, personal documents and mementos that reflect life in S.F.’s Japantown and the broader area prior to Dec. 7, 1941? The JCCCNC would like to scan and add the digital files to their archive of “Issei-focused treasures.” https://t.co/JBuD3PaLwR
“Yuri was always active even before she was an activist,” Kai Naima Williams, author of “The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements,” said about her great-grandmother. https://t.co/nbbOXBGqTe
Calling all K-12 students! Join our inaugural "SOY-FUL" Youth Art Contest! Submit by May 29, 2024, 11:59 pm PDT via online application, email with PDF application, or mail to Nichi Bei Foundation office. Visit https://t.co/h8iOIs4biW for details. Sponsored by: @yasutomo_art
Don Wakamatsu returns to Oakland with the @oaklandballers, a new professional baseball team which will play its first-ever home opener at Raimondi Park on June 4. https://t.co/7UMmaoZ6fd
“While support for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian-Israeli war came from all corners of the Japanese American community, …” youth are “taking the lead.” https://t.co/jzXF5u8KvI
“Soul of The City’s” “audience follows a storyteller who embarks on a journey to find the soul of San Francisco, weaving a narrative through the city’s diverse cultural landscapes, including Chinatown, Japantown, and The Fillmore.” https://t.co/4sss1KBou9
New from Penguin Classics: The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, edited and with an introduction by @FrankAbe and Floyd Cheung!
Available now wherever books are sold: https://t.co/QF1TlPyIO0