November 7, 2025
Andrew Way Leong, a faculty affiliate of the Asian American Research Center, has been awarded a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation in the amount of $152,435 for his project, which works to conserve and digitize an archive of Japanese-language literary journals published at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. Led by Leong, the team is establishing a consultative framework for expanding English-language access to the Itaru Ina Tule Lake Literary Journal Collection. The collection will enhance the nation's understanding of Japanese American incarceration and, with descendant community approval, will be accessible online and at the Ethnic Studies Library.