Originally written in 1948 and based closely on Dazai’s own life.

She also wrote and produced the documentary Asian America.members of the Shin Issei community.

Shin Issei women tell stories of precarity.and the Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching from the UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association.She is also a professor at the Intercultural Research Institute.

where they were restricted by gendered social structures.her research interests shifted from ethnicity to race.

Yasuko Takezawa is a visiting professor serving as the Terasaki Chair in U.

Takezawa has been leading a series of large international collaborative research projects.businesses and community life.

We are honored to receive our initial funding from Assemblymember Ting.executive director of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California.

Kinmon Gakuen is a community institution as well as a site where Japanese Americans were processed before being sent to camp in 1942.Ting led efforts to pass the AAPI Equity Budget.