Join us for this webinar that will examine how in this partial biography, Wang’s words and Cha’s mixed-media art together gently tell the Suk family’s story taking in refugees during the Korean War at their home in Busan.
Yuki is the daughter of a poor fisherman. Kiyo is the son of a senior executive at Chisso, a huge chemical conglomerate. In 1956, they meet and become friends. But then all living things in the once beautiful Minamata Bay suddenly die. The impoverished …
Explore K-12 education at Amache – one of the 10 Japanese American Incarceration Camps during World War II. This will provide educators a look into the school structure and daily lives of K-12 students, as well as the reciprocal impact of Amache schools …
When the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, Japanese schoolboy Larry Fumio Miwa faithfully recorded each day’s events in his diary, despite the massive devastation he experienced firsthand. His eyewitness account of the improbable survival …
What is the story behind the story of Hokusai’s Daughter by Sunny Seki (2024 Freeman Book Award Honorable Mention)? Learn about the real Katsushika Ōi, her relationship with her father Hokusai, and their free spirited lifestyles and art in Edo, Japan of …
Join Tim Weston, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History at CU Boulder, to learn about the 228 Incident. In 1947, protests in Taiwan were sparked by tensions over corruption, economic hardship, and abuses of power by the Kuomintang (KMT). A brutal …
Kick-off women’s history month with Anita Yasuda, author of the picturebook biography of Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountaineer and environmentalist, who overcame gender stereotypes to become the first woman to summit Mt. Everest and the Seven Summits.