The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a series of essays about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and its effects on later generations. For Shimoda, the afterlife of the incarceration ...
Ezra at a family gravesite in Oahu in 2022 where several family members are buried. Ezra stands next to the headstone of his great great grandfather Kaju Hanzawa — the first family member to immigrate ...