Recalling the Ancestors: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American Internment
Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, United StatesNearly all Japanese Americans were subject to accusations of disloyalty during World War II, but Buddhists aroused particular suspicion. In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in […]