50 years ago I picked up bits of broken china at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, back in the day when it was unmanaged. I’ve had these pieces in a box ever sice. Today I was glad to return them to the state park system, with the help of our tour leader, Grant Din.

BLOG POST: Why the Japanese American Citizens League @jacl-national.bsky.social must reconcile itself with its own wartime history of government collaboration and suppression of resistance, before it can be free to reconcile with anyone else. #tulelakepilgrimage2026 resisters.com/2026/07/17/r...

Three years in the making, I finally corrected the transcript and Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social has published their oral history interview with me. A lot to cover, as I say in the HIstory Keepers email that just went out, so it took nine hours over three sessions. ddr.densho.org/narrators/10...

It's an honor to serve as one of the faces of the Mesa Refuge spring fundraising campaign. For fifty years I’ve worked with John Okada’s foundational novel, NO-NO BOY, and wrestled with it for the past five to adapt it for the theater. With two weeks inside this wildlife refuge 1/2

"American Peril" is an essential new work, one that will help frame the resistance to invented anti-immigrant hysteria. From @ucpress.bsky.social. @scottkurashige.bsky.social sky.social. @jessicapellien.bsky.social.

Scott Kurashige pulls no punches in turning the fear of the yellow peril on its head with his "American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism." He documents countless examples of vigilante violence and state violence in the face of the current regime's effort to whitewash history.

Join us in Portland this Saturday 5/16 for "Lines of Resistance" as Kelly Goto and I join with Lori Matsukawa to "explore how graphic storytelling gives voice to the lived experiences of Japanese Americans incarcerated at Minidoka in WWII. Book signing to follow. Free RSVP: jamo.org/lines-of-res...

More thoughts by George Toshio Johnston in the Pacific Citizen on the effectiveness of the "edutainment" model in podcasts to "tell an important, ever-timely story in an engaging, compelling and, yes, entertaining manner." www.pacificcitizen.org/podcasts-rec...

BLOG POST: Highlights of the grim outlook I recently presented at @denshoproject.bsky.social, the AAASAssociation for Asian American Studies - AAAS, and the Seattle Public Library on the use of industrial warehouses for 21st century American concentration camps. resisters.com/2026/04/13/m...

Join me tonight at 7:00 pm at the Central Library for what's bound to be a wide-ranging conversation with Densho founder Tom Ikeda. Should be free tickets still available, that Microsoft Auditorium has a lotta seats! bit.ly/41DxqcR

Back from AAAS to find this Sunday print version of the Seattle Times preview for tonight's program at the Seattle Public Library, where we'll show how a reading of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" prepares us to see what injustices the government is repeating today. 1/2

"... time when we’re seeing American citizens abducted from the streets, held in illegal detention, and sent to countries where they’ve never lived before." Photos from last night's full-house book launch at Town Hall Seattle.

"... citizens stranded by Japan’s war of imperialism. Evelyn Iritani writes with the dramatic flair and narrative arc of a novelist to fill in a missing piece of the Japanese American experience. Safe Passage is a meticulously researched page-turner, and one that is urgently needed at a ..." 2/4

OUT TODAY: "Safe Passage" by Pulitzer-prize winner Evelyn Iritani on WW2 diplomacy. My blurb: "Finally, someone has written the human story of the passengers aboard the Gripsholm and other prisoner-exchange ships and the desperate backchannel negotiations on both sides of the Pacific to rescue...1/4

Still time to sign up for tomorrow's @50501movement.bsky.social mass call on how you can stop 21st century American concentration camps in your hometown. Warehouses being leased as immigration detention sites. Hear from local activists and author @andreapitzer.bsky.social. bit.ly/march5masscall

The feature appears in the American theater issue of TAR BABY, a new quarterly journal that Ishmael edits for the Toni Morrison Foundation. You can get a copy here: tarbaby.com/shop/p/tar-b...

Thanks to novelist Ishmael Reed for this Q and A on the ongoing work to develop a new stage play from the great Japanese American novel, NO-NO BOY by John Okada, with photos from the public reading last May at Seattle Repertory Theater. resisters.com/2026/02/25/q...

In Portland, join us Feb. 16 for two screenings of this rarely-seen 1976 TV-film from which I got my rarely-used-since SAG card. It's the 50th anniversary of "Farewell to Manzanar," and you can bet our panel discussion will address what's happening now. Tickets: www.portland5.com/winningstad-...

I've heard it said we must meet readers where they are. This Saturday I'll greet runners who've completed a loop around downtown Seattle, the waterfront, and Chinatown/International District, and tell them about the legacy of John Okada and NO-NO BOY. Glad I don't have to run alongside them.

Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...

See our full conversation with @maddow.bsky.social as a special in her usual timeslot on @msnownews.bsky.social on Monday, December 29, 2025, 6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET. And you can now binge all six episodes of her BURN ORDER podcast at the usual outlets. 3/3 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Onstage, @maddow.bsky.social put us at ease with questions that were so focused and specific, it was easy to share our thoughts with her wildly engaged audience of 1,900 in the ornate Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. 2/

In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/

Thx @maddow.bsky.social for endorsing our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology: “An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it.” —Rachel Maddow

December 7th was once the day that Japanese Americans went into hiding. Tune in tonight at 8:40 pm PST on SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and worldwide as I recall with host Feliks Banel on his "Cascade of History" program how this day landed with the Seattle JA community in 1941. www.space101fm.org

It's simplified, yes, but by framing the story as a thriller she gets the message across that, as she puts it, history can help in times of crisis. Looking forward to meeting her in person in LA at the live launch event at the Orpheum Theater on December 14.

My film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 years ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. More: resisters.com/2025/11/30/f...

We mourn the loss of historian Art Hansen. Thanks to @kenjitaguma.bsky.social for giving us a chance to remember him and his lifetime contributions. Subscribe to the Nichi Bei News.

Thanks to the Seattle Mariners for taking us to a place we’ve never been before. If you had suggested to me in the spring that we’d play a game 7 in the ALCS, I would have happily taken it. We’ll get em next year.