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Tiny Shop a World of Wonders

Liem's Aquarium and Bird shop and owner Djin Kwie Liem.

Return to Tule Lake

Japanese American internees and their families make a pilgimage to the 'No - no camp' where loyalty and patriotism meant different things to those who were there.

Reliving day 'sea of people' were saved

Richard Chen meets Mark Roberts who was on of the crew of the USS Whipple which picked up refugees, including Chen, from boat off the Vietnamese coast in 1978

A Bittersweet Journey Back To Their Past

Internees returned to live in the Japanese Language School in the International District because they were unable to find housing in 1945

One man's stand against Holocaust

Hiroki Sugihara to talk about his father, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, who saved some 6,000 Jews when he gave them visa despite instructions not to.

Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America's Bloodiest Asian Gang

Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown.