Jeanne Sakata
L.A. Theatre Works presents four plays about the Japanese-American experience during and after World War II. This collection is sponsored in part by the California Civil Liberties Program from the California State Library.
Sisters Matsumoto by Philip Kan Gotanda
Stockton, California 1945. Three Japanese-American sisters return to their farm after years in an internment camp, but the once prosperous family finds it's not easy to
...2) For Us All
A team of lawyers uses a little-known legal writ to fight and overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, unjustly sentenced for resisting the WWII mass incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The play draws much inspiration from Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and his Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai (University of Washington Press 2015) and Justice Delayed by Peter Irons (Wesleyan University Press 1989).
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