Konrad Aderer
@konraderer.bsky.social
Nassau County, NY. Hapa yonsei. Filmmaker: They Took My Father Too, Resistance at Tule Lake, Enemy Alien
From the research library of my current film - in Chapter 1 Yasuo Sakata calls out the yawning gap in scholarship on Japanese American history between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the outbreak of WW2. #booksky buff.ly/Vh3caUq
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
From the research library of my current film - in Chapter 1 Yasuo Sakata calls out the yawning gap in scholarship on Japanese American history between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the outbreak of WW2. #booksky buff.ly/Vh3caUq
This is part of my home office workshelf...you can kind of discern a pattern around what I'm most focused on :) #booksky #BookishQOTD
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is part of my home office workshelf...you can kind of discern a pattern around what I'm most focused on :) #booksky #BookishQOTD
I interviewed Junko Kobayashi at the last Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Her foundational scholarship interprets Tessaku as a continuation of a Japanese-language literary movement that flowered in the U.S. in the years before World War II. buff.ly/s9igFod
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I interviewed Junko Kobayashi at the last Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Her foundational scholarship interprets Tessaku as a continuation of a Japanese-language literary movement that flowered in the U.S. in the years before World War II. buff.ly/s9igFod
Shortly before the pandemic I began my obsession with Tessaku ("Iron Fence"), the Japanese-language literary journal of Tule Lake Segregation Center...and last year I started production of film adaptation and hybrid documentary expanding on a 1944 short story from the second issue. buff.ly/LxiolpO
October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Shortly before the pandemic I began my obsession with Tessaku ("Iron Fence"), the Japanese-language literary journal of Tule Lake Segregation Center...and last year I started production of film adaptation and hybrid documentary expanding on a 1944 short story from the second issue. buff.ly/LxiolpO
Before World War II, Japanese Americans saw many Japanese films at cinemas and community venues. Denise Khor's book Transpacific Convergences reveals this transnational public sphere of cinema and ideas across the Pacific, which we recreate in They Took My Father Too.
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Before World War II, Japanese Americans saw many Japanese films at cinemas and community venues. Denise Khor's book Transpacific Convergences reveals this transnational public sphere of cinema and ideas across the Pacific, which we recreate in They Took My Father Too.
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
All right mister smartypants, whadja get don witcha five hard drives plugged in all day?
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All right mister smartypants, whadja get don witcha five hard drives plugged in all day?
Talk of Asian immigration as an "invasion" dominated politics in the early 20th century. But folks eager to see Asians locked up en masse had to wait for an actual war to trigger the Alien Enemies Act. Now we have a gov't willing to reinvent words like "invasion" and "insurrection."
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Talk of Asian immigration as an "invasion" dominated politics in the early 20th century. But folks eager to see Asians locked up en masse had to wait for an actual war to trigger the Alien Enemies Act. Now we have a gov't willing to reinvent words like "invasion" and "insurrection."
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
A clipping from my research around U.S. Japanese-language literature, which I'm excavating and reimagining as a filmmaker. Scholars of Japanese diasporas from Yuji Ichioka to Duncan Ryuken Williams have worked to free Asian American history from assimilationist biases. buff.ly/4LI028A
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A clipping from my research around U.S. Japanese-language literature, which I'm excavating and reimagining as a filmmaker. Scholars of Japanese diasporas from Yuji Ichioka to Duncan Ryuken Williams have worked to free Asian American history from assimilationist biases. buff.ly/4LI028A
Talk of Asian immigration as an "Invasion" drove editorials and politics long before WW2. The Alien Enemy Control Program arrested over 9,000 Japanese immigrants, and no "fifth column" was ever discovered. buff.ly/hiOOOcz @denshoproject.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Talk of Asian immigration as an "Invasion" drove editorials and politics long before WW2. The Alien Enemy Control Program arrested over 9,000 Japanese immigrants, and no "fifth column" was ever discovered. buff.ly/hiOOOcz @denshoproject.bsky.social
Besides, you can find whitesplaining dickheads here too, what's to miss?
July 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Besides, you can find whitesplaining dickheads here too, what's to miss?
Part of a 20th century playbook I'm familiar with. Justice Department directive: “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence” = against any foreign-born US citizen the right wing dislikes. documentedny.com/2025/07/11/a...
July 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Part of a 20th century playbook I'm familiar with. Justice Department directive: “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence” = against any foreign-born US citizen the right wing dislikes. documentedny.com/2025/07/11/a...
Thanks for calling attention to this. For perspective, here's a report on 2018-2024 migrant detainee deaths from American Immigration Lawyers Association: www.aila.org/library/deat...
July 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Thanks for calling attention to this. For perspective, here's a report on 2018-2024 migrant detainee deaths from American Immigration Lawyers Association: www.aila.org/library/deat...
Reminder that this and other sites are administered by the National Park Service of the Dept of the Interior. I wonder if this information is vulnerable to deletion, as other not-so-great American history has been since January. www.nps.gov/parkhistory/...
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reminder that this and other sites are administered by the National Park Service of the Dept of the Interior. I wonder if this information is vulnerable to deletion, as other not-so-great American history has been since January. www.nps.gov/parkhistory/...
Yep, Tanforan. That's the temporary detention site where my grandparents were forced to go before the Topaz concentration camp in Utah.
I visited around 2004 researching my family's story, there was nothing visible to commemorate it. Just a mall. Glad that there's a thoughtful exhibit there now.
I visited around 2004 researching my family's story, there was nothing visible to commemorate it. Just a mall. Glad that there's a thoughtful exhibit there now.
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Yep, Tanforan. That's the temporary detention site where my grandparents were forced to go before the Topaz concentration camp in Utah.
I visited around 2004 researching my family's story, there was nothing visible to commemorate it. Just a mall. Glad that there's a thoughtful exhibit there now.
I visited around 2004 researching my family's story, there was nothing visible to commemorate it. Just a mall. Glad that there's a thoughtful exhibit there now.
Uh oh, blocked by this anon person who takes fierce pride in their knowledge of Japanese people.
July 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Uh oh, blocked by this anon person who takes fierce pride in their knowledge of Japanese people.
On May 24, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act. It ended further immigration from Japan, while restricting the number of immigrants to the U.S. from southern and eastern Europe. Scholar May Ngai on the law's impact: buff.ly/HFQhCUh
May 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
On May 24, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act. It ended further immigration from Japan, while restricting the number of immigrants to the U.S. from southern and eastern Europe. Scholar May Ngai on the law's impact: buff.ly/HFQhCUh
Chizu Omori, former child incarceree, on a timely upcoming conference in Oakland: “The conventional story of the incarceration is one of obedience...But Japanese Americans have a long history of opposition, rebellion, and protest" #AAPI #resistance buff.ly/B6padk7
May 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chizu Omori, former child incarceree, on a timely upcoming conference in Oakland: “The conventional story of the incarceration is one of obedience...But Japanese Americans have a long history of opposition, rebellion, and protest" #AAPI #resistance buff.ly/B6padk7
As a film adaptation channeling Japanese-language American culture, authenticity is key in They Took My Father Too. The father, Noboru, is played by Toshiji Takashima, a Japanese-born, LA-based actor seen in Sniper G.R.I.T., Yakuza Princess, The Wreck & numerous TV and theater roles. buff.ly/7TDSdIg
May 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As a film adaptation channeling Japanese-language American culture, authenticity is key in They Took My Father Too. The father, Noboru, is played by Toshiji Takashima, a Japanese-born, LA-based actor seen in Sniper G.R.I.T., Yakuza Princess, The Wreck & numerous TV and theater roles. buff.ly/7TDSdIg
Yeah, this takes me back...brilliant idea!
May 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Yeah, this takes me back...brilliant idea!
I'm so thrilled to be working with actor Shoko Rice on my film, They Took My Father Too. To play Mioko, an immigrant Japanese mother who will shoulder the destiny of her US-born children as war breaks out, Shoko brings the depth and strength to carry us on this harrowing journey. buff.ly/oLxNJ1v
May 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm so thrilled to be working with actor Shoko Rice on my film, They Took My Father Too. To play Mioko, an immigrant Japanese mother who will shoulder the destiny of her US-born children as war breaks out, Shoko brings the depth and strength to carry us on this harrowing journey. buff.ly/oLxNJ1v
How long before Drumpf seeks vengeance on Moody's? Possibly before I finish typing this. Criminal investigation? Haul them before Congress?
May 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
How long before Drumpf seeks vengeance on Moody's? Possibly before I finish typing this. Criminal investigation? Haul them before Congress?
Yesterday a federal judge ruled in favor of the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemy Act to arrest Venezuelan immigrants. As a Japanese American whose mother was born in a US concentration camp, I'm not happy about this. buff.ly/8BJl9cA
May 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Yesterday a federal judge ruled in favor of the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemy Act to arrest Venezuelan immigrants. As a Japanese American whose mother was born in a US concentration camp, I'm not happy about this. buff.ly/8BJl9cA
My film THEY TOOK MY FATHER TOO weaves the lost cinema culture of Japanese America into a story of the uprooting of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, which Denise Khor illuminated in her 2022 book "Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before WW2"
buff.ly/j2os35O
buff.ly/j2os35O
May 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My film THEY TOOK MY FATHER TOO weaves the lost cinema culture of Japanese America into a story of the uprooting of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, which Denise Khor illuminated in her 2022 book "Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before WW2"
buff.ly/j2os35O
buff.ly/j2os35O
Drop someone ANGRY 😤🖤🤬
May 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Drop someone ANGRY 😤🖤🤬