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BOOK REVIEW: A Potent Introduction to Stories of Resistance Posted On By MARTHA NAKAGAWA, Rafu Contributor The graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” focuses on the real-life experiences of Jim Akutsu, a Minidoka War Relocation Authority camp draft resister; Mitsuye Endo, a Central Utah (Topaz) WRA inmate who challenged the incarceration through a habeas corpus petition; and Hiroshi Kashiwagi, a Tule Lake WRA/Segregation Center no-no and renunciant. The stories of Akutsu and Endo are straightforward. Akutsu refused to serve in the U.S. mi...

BOOKS: ‘We Hereby Refuse’ Speaks Truth to Power to Young Readers Posted On By EDWARD IWATA, Special to The Rafu We live in an age of shameless appropriation, when the privileged can profit from other cultures and their suffering as easily as signing a book or movie contract. So it is encouraging to see that the authors of the new graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” (Wing Luke Museum and Chin Music Press) are talented Japanese American creatives with the credibility and cultural knowing to tell our authentic tales. They do not parac...

Graphic novel shows Japanese American WWII activists like you've never seen Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Ashley Wong, The Sacramento Bee © Resisters/Chin Music Press/TNS "We Hereby Refuse," by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura, with artwork by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki. SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Many may know the story of Mitsuye Endo, the Sacramento-raised Japanese American who fought and won her freedom from incarceration during World War II, but few know who she was outside of that legacy. That's just one of the history gaps the artists and authors behind "We Hereby Refuse: Japa...

Graphic novel shows Sacramento's Japanese American WWII activists like you've never seen Sacramento Bee 5/5/2021 Ashley Wong, The Sacramento Bee May 4—Many may know the story of Mitsuye Endo, the Sacramento-raised Japanese American who fought and won her freedom from incarceration during World War II, but few know who she was outside of that legacy. That's just one of the history gaps the artists and authors behind "We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Acts of Resistance During World War II," a graphic novel out May 18 from the Wing Luke Museum in Washington, are hoping to ...