Japanese Americans: Home at Last

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Crush of merrymakers accompanies the mikoshi, a portable Shinto shrine, through San Francisco's Japantown during the Cherry B...
At ease in two cultures, Hisao Inouye tends a grill laden with teriyaki during San Francisco's Cherry Blossom Festival. Overc...
First field of endeavor for many, agriculture provided work for Japanese immigrants to Hawaii in the late 19th century. Two p...
Vows of devotion helped Dr. Kazyuki Takahashi and his wife, Soyo, endure internment. The couple had hastened their marriage t...
Awarded a Distinguished Service Cross, Senator Danie K. Inouye of Hawaii, who lost an arm during World War II, addresses fell...
"I don't regret having served at all," says Wilson Makabe. After a brief internment and work-release program, he enlisted in ...
A place of sorrow lives on in the memories of Karl and Elaine Yoneda, who return each year for commemorative services at Manz...
A monument for those who died at Manzanar bears the Japanese symbols for consolation, soul, and tower.
Room at the top is the reward for Japanese Americans with pluck and drive. Relaxing with his wife, Yone, at their Pelham, New...
The son of immigrants who worked on sugar plantations, Honolulu hotel owner H.T. Hayashi has been honored as Hawaii's Busines...
Rows of greenhouses march away from the home of Morinaga Tashiro and his wife, Kumi. Salinas, Monterey County, California
After emigrating from Japan in 1956, Morinaga Tashiro worked as a migrant farm worker and gardener. Today he produces more th...
Business blooms in California's Monterey County, where 61 Japanese-American families dominate the cut-flower industry. At a n...
"Trees have a yearning to live again." That philosophy guides the hand of furniture maker George Nakashima, who strives to hi...
In a playful gibe at American culture, artist Masami Teraoka, who resides in Hawaii and California, used a traditional print ...
Seeking the path of enlightenment, two Zen Buddhist initiates walk through grounds of the International Zen Dojo's Chozen-ji ...
Trainees at this Honolulu temple arise at 5am to meditate before breakfast and their normal duties tending the temple and her...
Man in the middle, gold trader Alan Yamashita has his hands full at Goldman Sachs & Company in New York City as he talks with...
Class clown turns a gesture of ridicule into a good-natured acknowledgment of his heritage at a Buddhist school in Gardena, C...
In Los Angeles' Little Tokyo district, Jiro Uchida adds a beard to traditional garb to play "Shogun Santa." In like fashion, ...
At ease in two cultures, Hisao Inouye tends a grill laden with teriyaki during San Francisco's Cherry Blossom Festival. Overc...
First field of endeavor for many, agriculture provided work for Japanese immigrants to Hawaii in the late 19th century. Two p...
Awarded a Distinguished Service Cross, Senator Danie K. Inouye of Hawaii, who lost an arm during World War II, addresses fell...
A monument for those who died at Manzanar bears the Japanese symbols for consolation, soul, and tower.
The son of immigrants who worked on sugar plantations, Honolulu hotel owner H.T. Hayashi has been honored as Hawaii's Busines...
Business blooms in California's Monterey County, where 61 Japanese-American families dominate the cut-flower industry. At a n...
"Trees have a yearning to live again." That philosophy guides the hand of furniture maker George Nakashima, who strives to hi...
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Man in the middle, gold trader Alan Yamashita has his hands full at Goldman Sachs & Company in New York City as he talks with...
Man in the middle, gold trader Alan Yamashita has his hands full at Goldman Sachs & Company in New York City as he talks with...
Class clown turns a gesture of ridicule into a good-natured acknowledgment of his heritage at a Buddhist school in Gardena, C...
In Los Angeles' Little Tokyo district, Jiro Uchida adds a beard to traditional garb to play "Shogun Santa." In like fashion, ...