Articles & Books

How Japanese American Girls Boosted Military Morale From Inside Internment Camps

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.

“The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements”

By Kai Naima Williams
Illustrated by Anastasia Magloire Williams

(Kaepernick Publishing, 2024)

Reflections on My Grandma Yuri, Malcolm X, and the Past, Present and Future of Black-Asian Solidarity

by Akemi Kochiyama

(That Which Remains Journal, January 2021)

Yuri, Tupac, and a Harlem House

by Taiyo Na (2014)

"Heartbeat of the Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama”

by Diane Carol Fujino

(University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

“Passing it On: A Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama”

By Yuri Kochiyama, edited by Audee Kochiyama-Holman, Akemi Kochiyama-Sardinha, Marjorie Lee

(UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2004)

“The Life and Times of Yuri Kochiyama”

by Mayumi Nakazawa

(Bungei-Shunju, 1998)

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