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August 28, 2015

I gave a recent reading to a full house at the Japanese American Museum in San Jose's lovely Japantown, and had a blast. During a recent trip to San Francisco to attend the annual conference of the Asian American Journalists Association, I squeezed in two readings from the new revised edition of my book, “Being Japanese American.” The two events reminded...

April 20, 2015

Hand-carved wood panels made in Amache in Colorado during WWII. These were among the items that would have been auctioned. Here's a link to the announcement on JANM's website.   UPDATE MAY 3, 2015:T he Japanese American National Museum announced last night at a gala fundraising honoring George Takei (who's a JANM board member as well as a community...