Thank you very much for sharing your difficult experiences during the WWII, Takashi-san! We have learned a lot and will continue to share your thoughts with our readers from now on. Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @MasakoMiki Noriko JANM Frank Abe 中日新聞国際部 Foreign News Section, the Chunichi Shimbun chunichi.co.jp/article/946441

Takashi Hoshizaki is a member of our board and the sole surviving World War II draft resister from Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. 岩田　仲弘 told his story for Japanese readers of the Chunichi Shimbun. chunichi.co.jp/article/946441

Adding thanks to Densho, whose archives have been invaluable for this book's research. (FYI Frank Abe -- plug for the new anthology--w/work by ☀️ 🌤 ⛅️ 🌥 & TAMIKO NOYCE--at the episode's end.)

⁦Frank Abe⁩ - We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration youtu.be/L68b5kIzAtY

We take it as a sign that we've made the big time when we see the Seattle Channel’s animation of the Jim Akutsu chapter of our graphic novel being streamed on board Alaska Airlines flights!

Los Angeles, CA: JANM Book Club: Literature of Japanese American Incarceration on Oct. 12 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm PDT JANM discovernikkei.org/en/events/2024…

It’s an honor to serve as featured speakers for Densho’s fall fundraiser. Densho is the gold standard in preservation of camp history and an indispensable resource for us in building our anthology for Penguin Classics. Join us Oct. 10.

In Sacramento, join me and @sharony360 on 10/16 for a screening of "One Fighting Irishman" and discussion of the graphic novel, WE HEREBY REFUSE: a graphic novel, moderated by Sacramento Sup. Ct. Judge Kara Ueda at Matsui Federal Courthouse. Sponsored 9th Judicial Hist. Soc. & McGeorge School of Law.

On Monday 10/21 at 7pm our Seward Park store welcomes Frank Abe and special guest with Vince Schleitwiler as they discuss the book, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Frank Abe Penguin Classics thirdplacebooks.com/event/frank-abe

In the face of Trump’s mass deportation agenda, CA must set a model of inclusion for the nation. Our leaders must IMMEDIATELY use every tool at their disposal to protect and defend our immigrant neighbors - and our deepest values. Please read and share our full statement ⬇️

First interview post-election. It speaks for itself. See the full Q an A with Bianca Vandenbos at her Book Notions blog: booknotions.com/qa-with-frank-…

We are pleased to announce that the Teacher's Guide for The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration edited by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung is now available! Find the guide written by Laura Reis Mayer here: assetbucketpublic.7169.prh.com/9780/143/133/2…

Fight back. Teach the history of wartime incarceration that the president-elect is invoking as the precedent for his program of mass deportation & 21st century American concentration camps. Penguin Random House Higher Education has just issued this Teachers Guide for our anthology from Penguin Classics.

Fight back. Teach the history of wartime incarceration that the president-elect is invoking as the precedent for his program of mass deportation & 21st century American concentration camps. Read our graphic novel available from: chinmusicpress.com/product-page/w…

Start the new year right with a 2025 "Resisters of the Pacific Northwest" calendar from Friends of Minidoka, with material on the Minidoka draft resisters, the Mothers Society that objecting to draft of of their sons, & 1st Day of Remembrance. Order: minidoka.org/shop/p/2025-re…

Resistance to injustice. In NYC, join a distinguished panel of jurists & legal scholars from the Fordham University Center on Asian Americans and The Law for a special screening on February 25 of CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION. RSVP: go.activecalendar.com/FordhamUnivers…

Thanks to Adam Smith at Sampan Newspaper 舢舨 in Boston for this interview on Mitsuye Endo and WE HEREBY REFUSE: a graphic novel, on the occasion of her award of the Presidential Citizens Medal. sampan.org/2025/immigrati…

Tonight, YURI is proud to be in conversation with our dear friend WE HEREBY REFUSE: a graphic novel Frank Abe and his co-editor Floyd Cheung as they present their new Penguin Books anthology, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION.

Join King County Library on August 9 for a talk by author Frank Abe about the parallels between present day mass deportation, Japanese American wartime incarceration, and his graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration: kcls.bibliocommons.com/events/67eef59…