Borders & Heritage
Nihonjin Face: Lessons From the Past
Season 4 Episode 5 | 6m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Playwrights Hayakawa and Tere Martinez on internment their play "Nihonjin Face."
When Hayakawa and Tere Martinez were commissioned by Tacoma’s Broadway Center for the Performing Arts to create a play about the internment and the Civil Rights Movement, they were determined to convey the pain, injustice and anger felt by many Japanese Americans sent to the camps. They wrote the play, Nihonjin Face, meaning “Japanese face.”
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Borders & Heritage is a local public television program presented by Cascade PBS
Borders & Heritage
Nihonjin Face: Lessons From the Past
Season 4 Episode 5 | 6m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
When Hayakawa and Tere Martinez were commissioned by Tacoma’s Broadway Center for the Performing Arts to create a play about the internment and the Civil Rights Movement, they were determined to convey the pain, injustice and anger felt by many Japanese Americans sent to the camps. They wrote the play, Nihonjin Face, meaning “Japanese face.”
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