Executive Order 9066
Ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066,[1] resulting in the forced relocation and incarceration of almost 120,000…
A Date That Will Live In Infamy
On December 7, 1941, Imperial Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a preemptive strike against “the sleeping giant,” the United States of America. Many Nikkei Christians were attending church…
Viewing Immigration Through a Gospel Lens
I am the grandchild of immigrants. Some came to America legally, and others did not; some came for adventure and others for survival. In our family are runaways, refugees, orphans,…
A Call for Asian American Church Planters
I never intended to plant a church. My journey began 10 years ago, and it happened quite by accident. I had always been told that church planters were extroverted, entrepreneurial,…
A Letter to My Children About Racism
To my children, You have heard recently about Asian Americans being mocked or harmed because of their ethnic origin. This is not a new occurrence in our country’s history, but…
In Honor of Isao and Masako Sugimura
My earliest recollection of the Japanese American internment was of hearing my Obachan (“Japanese grandmother”) speak bitterly about what this country had done to her family. The war years (1942-1945)…