Articles & Books
by Lakshmi Gandhi
(History.com, May 2026)
Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama kickstarted a letter-writing movement to lift soldiers’ spirits from an unlikely place.
By Kai Naima Williams
Illustrated by Anastasia Magloire Williams
(Kaepernick Publishing, 2024)
by Denise Lim Mellon (Postdoctoral Fellow, Parsons School of Design, The New School)
& Lisa Beyeler-Yvarra (PhD Student, Department of Religious Studies and the School of Architecture, Yale University)
(Brill, 2022)
by Akemi Kochiyama
(That Which Remains Journal, January 2021)
by Taiyo Na
(Hyphen Magazine, 2014)
by Diane Carol Fujino
(University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
By Yuri Kochiyama, edited by Audee Kochiyama-Holman, Akemi Kochiyama-Sardinha, Marjorie Lee
(UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2004)
by Mayumi Nakazawa
(Bungei-Shunju, 1998)
by Chris Iijima
(Professor at University of Hawai’i’s William S. Richardson School of Law & beloved friend of the Kochiyama’s)