Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farm

During the 1885 to 1924 immigration period of plantation laborers from Japan to Hawaii, more than 200,000 Japanese, mostly single men, made the long journey by

From the moment we meet Haru, we fall in love with this proud girl of silk and steel. To escape being sold into prostitution in turn-of-the-century Japan, Haru

Not everything on a sugar plantation is sweet…. Mary Ellen Colson discovers this after she arrives in Hawaii. The man her sister, Breanna, planned on marrying

Poems portray people's journeys and migrations and pay homage to the art of the American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a Japanese printmaker