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Opinion

A Hiroshima Survivor’s Message for Jerry Saltz

“I don't think there's any kind of justification for the dropping of the bomb,” said Howard Kakita in response to the art critic’s statement in defense of the American atomic bombing of Japan in 1945.

Opinion

As a Japanese American in LA, the ICE Raids Hit Home

I know what lasting trauma these violations cause as someone whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were unjustly incarcerated by the US government during World War II.

Opinion

Asian-American Art Is Plagued by Generational Amnesia

Many members of the current generation do not recognize or even know about past efforts to create visibility for Asian-American artists.

Art

At the Japanese American National Museum, a Book Becomes a Monument

Internment camp survivors and their descendants are invited to stamp Ireichō, a book that represents the first definitive count of those incarcerated.