James Matsumoto Omura and Arthur Hansen

James Matsumoto Omura (1912–1994) was a newspaper editor and later operated a landscaping business in Denver, Colorado. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalists Association in 1989.

Arthur A. Hansen is Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Nisei Naysayer is out now from Stanford University Press.

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

From the Late James Omura's Memoir of Internment and Repression

August 29, 2018 By James Matsumoto Omura and Arthur Hansen

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James Matsumoto Omura and Arthur Hansen

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

From the Late James Omura's Memoir of Internment and Repression

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