For years, filmmaker Robert Nakamura – known as the “godfather of Asian American media” – taught a class at UCLA on ethno-communications. Among his thousands of students across the decades was his son ...

In the spring of 1942, 15-year-old Momo Nagano needed a way to fill her time. She was imprisoned at the Manzanar Relocation Center along with approximately 10,000 other people of Japanese ancestry.

In the spring of 1942, at the height of World War II, Elaine Buchman Yoneda became the only Jewish woman on record to be imprisoned in an American concentration camp. Manzanar was one of the detention ...

In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her. That was the real-life dilemma faced by the main character of ...

As visitors to the national historic site are urged to inform on anything ‘negative’, advocates warn of the same playbook that led to concentration camps At the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, ...

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the California desert Visitors to Manzanar National Historic Site will be able ...

“I knew I had to make a film about my dad,” declares filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura at the beginning of his latest documentary Third Act. The son of famed director Robert A. Nakamura, a man considered by ...

Robert A. Nakamura and Tadashi Nakamura appear in Third Act (2025) directed by Tadashi Nakamura (photo by Tadashi Nakamura; all images courtesy Sundance Institute) Tadashi Nakamura made his cinematic ...

As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II. As Shohei Ohtani played in the ...

LOS ANGELES >> As millions cheered Shohei Ohtani’s debut in the World Series at Dodger Stadium, a couple of dozen ballplayers of Japanese descent gathered last weekend on a dusty field 200 miles north ...