world war ii – Page 2 – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Korean “Comfort Women”: Military Brothels, Brutality, and the Redress Movement

May 5, 2021April 23, 2021 By Pyong Gap Min

Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.

Oppression and Resistance in America’s World War II Concentration Camps

November 2, 2022February 24, 2021 By Gary Y. Okihiro

Many historians and Japanese Americans cite the loss of U.S. citizenship rights as the biggest injustice of the camps, and many believe cooperation and not resistance was the norm. Join Dr. Gary Okihiro as he outlines the nature of the oppression in that historical experience, and the resistance posed to those oppressive acts.

Honor and Duty: The Chinese American World War II Veterans

April 3, 2021December 4, 2020 By E. Samantha Cheng

In HONOR AND DUTY: The Chinese American WWII Veterans, author/journalist E. Samantha Cheng compiles a thorough historical record that recognizes the service and sacrifice these patriots paid in America’s wartime need. In addition, the data collected and compiled for the Congressional Gold Medal project will serve as an indispensable source of info for surviving family members and historians/scholars alike.

Punctuated Equilibrium: Now Everyone is an Immigrant

March 17, 2021July 8, 2020 By Phil Tajitsu Nash

OUR LIVES IN 2020 are being shaped by unfamiliar words, customs and concepts. Many of us are experiencing health insecurity, food insecurity, job insecurity, and fear of random violence. These concepts may be new to many of us, but they would have been very familiar to my grandfather Misao and many other immigrants and refugees, … Read more

Freedom From Fear/Yellow Bowl Project

July 6, 2020October 25, 2019 By Setsuko Winchester

Setsuko Winchester, Japanese American ceramic artist, photographer and journalist will discuss her conceptual art work, Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project. The FFF/YBP is an attempt to shine a new light onto an old aspect of America’s history with race and ethnicity, prejudice and bias and how they shaped this country’s ideas of freedom, justice and citizenship.