The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II had a lasting impact on the first two generations of Japanese Americans – the Issei (the first-generation Japanese immigrants) and the Nisei (American-born children of the first-generation...

Frank Chin’s gripping afterword to the novel No-No Boy emphasizes the crucial influence of John Okada’s literary pursuits in his own life as an Asian-American writer. In a world where words had formerly danced across the pages of books to the sole...

John Okada’s No-No Boy illustrates the racial conflicts between the Japanese-American community and American popular culture as well as differing views on assimilation among Japanese-Americans themselves. Kenji, who suffers from a fatal wound...