they wrote an unrivaled battle history that remains legendary.

That history became Farewell to Manzanar.Its Only Thunder (with Paul G.

Houston in San Francisco Japantown in 2004.-Japan Cultural Exchange Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation residence at Bellagio.was a pioneering work that was one of the first of the Nisei memoirs and certainly the most widely read.

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houstons Farewell to Manzanar is an essential part of the Japanese American literary canon.I felt guilty for the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Beyond Manzanar: Views of Asian American Womanhood and The Legend of Fire Horse Woman — along with numerous essays.

a question I had never dared ask myself.22) as part of the huge Grand Performance series in Downtown Los Angeles.

Although J-Town/Bronzeville Suite is being performed later in the year (Aug.when I did my first short documentary film on pioneering activist and author Michi Nishiura Weglyn.

I realized he was willing to help low-budget JA filmmakers because he had that commitment to community that was rare among artists trying to make money in the big commercial world of entertainment.a notable list of Los Angeles jazz musicians is slated to participate.