#FilmsofRemembrance, our annual showcase of films on the WWII incarceration of persons of Japanese ancestry, returns Feb. 24 to SF’s J-Town and Feb. 25 to San Jose’s Japantown. We’ll also stream films online from Feb. 24-March 10. tinyurl.com/2s3f7m87

Tonight’s “Nichi Bei Café” previews “Nisei,” “Removed by Force: The Eviction of Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans During World War II,” “Life and Death Behind Barbed Wire” & “One Fighting Irishman.” tinyurl.com/5n6uv86w 2024.filmsofremembrance.org #FilmsofRemembrance

Thanks tp Tomo Hirai at Nichi Bei Foundation News for these new interviews with me and Shannon Gee on the making of "The Akutsu Family Resists," and with @sharony360 on hers. Both screening as the "Films of Resistance" on Feb. 24-25. Get tickets here: 2024.filmsofremembrance.org

The WWII "story of more than 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry, who were forcibly removed from their homes in Hawai‘i but not incarcerated, is movingly captured in” “Removed by Force: The Eviction of Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans During WWII” tinyurl.com/97prtj9m

On Feb. 15, Reclaim Sacramento Japantown members testified before the California State Assembly about the former neighborhood’s history unjust demolition during the 1950s and called for a public space to remember the lost neighborhood. tinyurl.com/yystvbsa

Nikkei Matsuri returns this Sunday “to share and preserve the culture and heritage of the Japanese American traditions through the presentation of food, arts and crafts, performing arts, demonstrations and cultural exhibits in” San Jose’s Japantown nikkeimatsuri.org

$33M Peace Plaza construction project aims to start soon in SF’s Japantown nichibei.org/2024/04/peace-…

‘Visionary’ artist and activist Miyamoto’s life of ‘groundbreaking cultural work’ screens in SF, LA tinyurl.com/2w9f645h

“While support for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian-Israeli war came from all corners of the Japanese American community, …” youth are “taking the lead.” shorturl.at/RV129

“Soul of The City’s” “audience follows a storyteller who embarks on a journey to find the soul of San Francisco, weaving a narrative through the city’s diverse cultural landscapes, including Chinatown, Japantown, and The Fillmore.” presidiotheatre.org/show/2024-soul…

‘Ten times better’: The extraordinary life of George Lee, an Asian American dance legend shorturl.at/eQX23 Screens Sunday Roxie Theater in SF

Cancer survivor Baylor Nihei Fredrickson is college-bound shorturl.at/fG156

New from Penguin Classics: The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, edited and with an introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung! Available now wherever books are sold: bit.ly/4bj56zj

Anti-gentrification forces oppose pot dispensary in #LittleTokyo shorturl.at/MQVW5 #DTLA

“'The Literature of Japanese Americans Incarceration'” is one of the most significant, timely, and urgent works of our generation that raises necessary questions about the future of 'We the People of the United States.'” shorturl.at/4OJKk Frank Abe

Filmmaker Kenji G. Taguma joins me on my show today at 11:25am.