Article contains stories of Japanese American farmers and farm life before and after World War II. These stories are excerpts from a vido-tape project funded by the Washington Commission for the Humanties entier Bara-Bara/Scatterd.
In 1901, a twelve-year-old Japanese boy is shanghaied and serves as cabin boy aboard the bark Sindia, dealing with homesickness and hardships on the long and exciting journey from Kobe, Japan, to Ocean City, New Jersey.
Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on…
