Category Archives: Brian Komei Dempster

  1. From Our Side of the Fence

    December 6, 2012 by Admin

    By Brian Komei Dempster The video was produced for the presentation of the Nisei Voices Award for “From Our Side …
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  2. Q & A with Editor Brian Komei Dempster

    January 29, 2012 by Admin

    Written by twelve Japanese American elders who gathered regularly at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, Making …
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  3. An Intergenerational Writing Workshop

    January 26, 2012 by Admin

    “Collecting Nisei Stories: An Intergenerational Writing Workshop on Wartime Incarceration and Post-War Resettlement” facilitated by Brian Komei Dempster Saturday, Feb. …
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  4. Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement

    January 26, 2012 by Admin

    making home from war

    Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 …
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In the aftermath of World War II, more than 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry – roughly two-thirds of whom were American citizens – were released from forced imprisonment in U.S. concentration camps. But released to return where, after being taken from their homes along the West Coast? When they were finally allowed to leave the internment camps, they faced a new challenge: How do you resume a life so interrupted.