a story that needs to be told for generations to come in honor of our ancestors and their families.

This place where we stand is a historically Japanese American fishing village.leaving families who had no idea when they would be reunited.

Ive had friends … who are fishermen who like to go up to Mammoth and catch trout.appropriately called Tunaville.We are greatly disturbed by the use of Terminal Island.

and I was born in a place called Minamata.a member of Nikkei Progressives and a retired LAUSD teacher.

testified that she carried her birth certificate with her to go to high school in Terminal Island to prove that she was a citizen.

when they ripped him away from his family and sent him — a man who had done nothing wrong — to be jailed in a series of prison camps run by the Department of Justice.Her most cherished value is courage and most important practice is listening.

and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian America (tickets required).Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker.

was on the USA Today bestseller list for two weeks.Shes co-written a new childrens book.