Frank Abe
@frankabe.bsky.social
Co-editor, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION. Lead author, WE HEREBY REFUSE. Blogs at http://Resisters.com. Links: https://linktr.ee/
Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Mind-blowing to bring the story of wartime incarceration and the links to today to 1,900 @maddow.bsky.social fans in LA on Sunday. Watch for the full program on Monday, December 29 on @msnownews.bsky.social. My impressions here: resisters.com/2025/12/16/b...
See our full conversation with @maddow.bsky.social as a special in her usual timeslot on @msnownews.bsky.social on Monday, December 29, 2025, 6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET. And you can now binge all six episodes of her BURN ORDER podcast at the usual outlets. 3/3
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December 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
See our full conversation with @maddow.bsky.social as a special in her usual timeslot on @msnownews.bsky.social on Monday, December 29, 2025, 6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET. And you can now binge all six episodes of her BURN ORDER podcast at the usual outlets. 3/3
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Onstage, @maddow.bsky.social put us at ease with questions that were so focused and specific, it was easy to share our thoughts with her wildly engaged audience of 1,900 in the ornate Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. 2/
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Onstage, @maddow.bsky.social put us at ease with questions that were so focused and specific, it was easy to share our thoughts with her wildly engaged audience of 1,900 in the ornate Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. 2/
In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/
Thx @maddow.bsky.social for endorsing our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology: “An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it.” —Rachel Maddow
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Thx @maddow.bsky.social for endorsing our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology: “An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it.” —Rachel Maddow
December 7th was once the day that Japanese Americans went into hiding. Tune in tonight at 8:40 pm PST on SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and worldwide as I recall with host Feliks Banel on his "Cascade of History" program how this day landed with the Seattle JA community in 1941. www.space101fm.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
December 7th was once the day that Japanese Americans went into hiding. Tune in tonight at 8:40 pm PST on SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and worldwide as I recall with host Feliks Banel on his "Cascade of History" program how this day landed with the Seattle JA community in 1941. www.space101fm.org
It's simplified, yes, but by framing the story as a thriller she gets the message across that, as she puts it, history can help in times of crisis. Looking forward to meeting her in person in LA at the live launch event at the Orpheum Theater on December 14.
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It's simplified, yes, but by framing the story as a thriller she gets the message across that, as she puts it, history can help in times of crisis. Looking forward to meeting her in person in LA at the live launch event at the Orpheum Theater on December 14.
My film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 years ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. More: resisters.com/2025/11/30/f...
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 years ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. More: resisters.com/2025/11/30/f...
We mourn the loss of historian Art Hansen. Thanks to @kenjitaguma.bsky.social for giving us a chance to remember him and his lifetime contributions. Subscribe to the Nichi Bei News.
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We mourn the loss of historian Art Hansen. Thanks to @kenjitaguma.bsky.social for giving us a chance to remember him and his lifetime contributions. Subscribe to the Nichi Bei News.
Thanks to the Seattle Mariners for taking us to a place we’ve never been before. If you had suggested to me in the spring that we’d play a game 7 in the ALCS, I would have happily taken it. We’ll get em next year.
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Thanks to the Seattle Mariners for taking us to a place we’ve never been before. If you had suggested to me in the spring that we’d play a game 7 in the ALCS, I would have happily taken it. We’ll get em next year.
"We want parks, not prisons! Park rangers, not ICE agents!" -- Huy Pham, APIAHiP: Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation on the Seattle waterfront for the National Day of Action to Protect Every Park.
August 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"We want parks, not prisons! Park rangers, not ICE agents!" -- Huy Pham, APIAHiP: Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation on the Seattle waterfront for the National Day of Action to Protect Every Park.
It’s a clear line from the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans to the abduction of innocent people off the streets today. Thanks to @benhamamoto.bsky.social for this coverage in the Nichi Bei News of my June 22 talk.
August 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It’s a clear line from the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans to the abduction of innocent people off the streets today. Thanks to @benhamamoto.bsky.social for this coverage in the Nichi Bei News of my June 22 talk.
The wait is over. Our book is proving hard to keep in print. Thanks to all the readers picking up on this story. Now in its fifth printing of just 2,000 more copies, get yours now or order for fall and winter classes while you can. www.chinmusicpress.com/product-page...
August 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The wait is over. Our book is proving hard to keep in print. Thanks to all the readers picking up on this story. Now in its fifth printing of just 2,000 more copies, get yours now or order for fall and winter classes while you can. www.chinmusicpress.com/product-page...
Honored to have our graphic novel WE HEREBY REFUSE centered for "One Bellevue, One Book" at the Bellevue, WA public library. I'll speak Aug. 9 on "What Japanese American Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today." If you're in the area see the full series at 1.kcls.org/onebellevue
July 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Honored to have our graphic novel WE HEREBY REFUSE centered for "One Bellevue, One Book" at the Bellevue, WA public library. I'll speak Aug. 9 on "What Japanese American Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today." If you're in the area see the full series at 1.kcls.org/onebellevue
Nearly 15,000 copies of WE HEREBY REFUSE sold over four printings. A 5th printing coming this month, in time for those teaching it this fall. Sadly more relevant than ever: abuse of the law, lies about invasion, and denial of due process and habeas corpus. It's all in the book. Give it another read.
June 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Nearly 15,000 copies of WE HEREBY REFUSE sold over four printings. A 5th printing coming this month, in time for those teaching it this fall. Sadly more relevant than ever: abuse of the law, lies about invasion, and denial of due process and habeas corpus. It's all in the book. Give it another read.
Still time to register for the big camp conference on June 21-22. Not just a history lesson but a time to regroup and prepare for the fight ahead. Registration extended to this Friday, June 6. www.jampilgrimages.org/changing-per...
See you all soon.
See you all soon.
June 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Still time to register for the big camp conference on June 21-22. Not just a history lesson but a time to regroup and prepare for the fight ahead. Registration extended to this Friday, June 6. www.jampilgrimages.org/changing-per...
See you all soon.
See you all soon.
In NYC, join Floyd Cheung and me, in-person or via Zoom, as we present our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" with Cathlin Goulding on May 13 at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. RSVP here: bit.ly/3EKO1Un
April 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In NYC, join Floyd Cheung and me, in-person or via Zoom, as we present our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" with Cathlin Goulding on May 13 at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. RSVP here: bit.ly/3EKO1Un
I'll be there to speak, along with Rob Buscher, Hanako Wakatsuki, Satsuki Ina, Michael Ishii, Akemi Johnson, Koji Lau-Ozawa, Andrew Leong, Hana Maruyama, Eric Muller, Lia Nitake, Chizu Omori, Greg Robinson, Barbara Takei, Diana Tsuchida, Nancy Ukai, Alice Yang, and many, many others. 2/2
April 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I'll be there to speak, along with Rob Buscher, Hanako Wakatsuki, Satsuki Ina, Michael Ishii, Akemi Johnson, Koji Lau-Ozawa, Andrew Leong, Hana Maruyama, Eric Muller, Lia Nitake, Chizu Omori, Greg Robinson, Barbara Takei, Diana Tsuchida, Nancy Ukai, Alice Yang, and many, many others. 2/2
If you care at all about the connections between wartime incarceration and mass deportation now, you'll want to be at this conference coming up June 21-22 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Organized by @jampilgrimages.bsky.social. Register at: www.jampilgrimages.org/changing-per... 1/2
April 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If you care at all about the connections between wartime incarceration and mass deportation now, you'll want to be at this conference coming up June 21-22 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Organized by @jampilgrimages.bsky.social. Register at: www.jampilgrimages.org/changing-per... 1/2
A reunion of editors at AAAS: with Floyd Cheung at the Nichi Bei Foundation booth for “The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration,” and with Floyd and Greg Robinson at the @uwapress.bsky.social table for “John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of NO-NO BOY.” #aaas2025
April 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
A reunion of editors at AAAS: with Floyd Cheung at the Nichi Bei Foundation booth for “The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration,” and with Floyd and Greg Robinson at the @uwapress.bsky.social table for “John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of NO-NO BOY.” #aaas2025
Thx to those who came to our panel on "Interpreting Japanese American Incarceration in the 21st Century Through Alternative Methods,” at the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Boston, where I shared some of the challenges of adapting NO-NO BOY for audiences in 2025. #aaas2025
April 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Thx to those who came to our panel on "Interpreting Japanese American Incarceration in the 21st Century Through Alternative Methods,” at the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Boston, where I shared some of the challenges of adapting NO-NO BOY for audiences in 2025. #aaas2025
Also come and talk with our friend Greg Robinson in the hour before ours.
April 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Also come and talk with our friend Greg Robinson in the hour before ours.
Artwork by Ross Ishikawa.
April 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Artwork by Ross Ishikawa.
In WE HEREBY REFUSE we hear, for the first time, the personal voice of Mitsuye Endo, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
April 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In WE HEREBY REFUSE we hear, for the first time, the personal voice of Mitsuye Endo, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court.