“We made the sacrifices. It was a sense of “Hey, I earned this. It’s not that you owe me. It’s this—that we have earned this.” — Fred Shiosakine Prologue One of the many pleasures of writing a book ...

It’s convenient to see Daniel James Brown’s new book, “Facing the Mountain,” as being particularly timely. At a time when Asian-American violence is up by nearly 150 percent, according to the Center ...

In the middle of the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, there's a monument dedicated to the 442nd Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, which was composed of Nisei, second-generation Japanese ...

Daniel James Brown’s new book shares some storytelling DNA with his blockbuster bestseller, 2013’s “The Boys in the Boat,” the saga of the University of Washington crew team that vanquished Hitler’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Many of the volunteers who served in World War II’s legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team were second-generation Japanese-Americans who had grown up in Hawaii. The islanders sometimes had problems ...

"Facing The Mountain," the new book by Daniel James Brown, keeps posing questions to the reader. Why would a democratic government fighting fascist, racist dictatorships imprison more than 100,000 ...

Three of the men featured in Facing the Mountain fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The fourth was a conscientious objector who took his case to the Supreme Court. Courtesy of the National ...