BeHere / 1942

Edited by Michael Emmerich and Erkki Huhtamo. Published by the Yanai Initiative and the Japanese American National Museum, 2022. This beautifully produced volume was published for Masaki Fujihata’s exhibition BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, co-presented by the Japanese American National Museum and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA and Waseda.

It contains a variety of contributions, each of which engages with the history of the Japanese American incarceration and its representation in photographs and exhibitions; with BeHere / 1942 itself; and with the career of the artist Masaki Fujihata. Contributors include Emily Anderson, Anne-Marie Duguet, Michael Emmerich, Masaki Fujihata, Clement Hanami, Erkki Huhtamo, Brian Niiya and Karen Umemoto, and Karen Tei Yamashita.