Tamiko Nimura
INTERVIEWS AND PRESS
2025
• “Tamiko Nimura Finds A Good Home for A Place for What We Lose,” Writing Is My Drink (blog of Theo Pauline Nestor)
•Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Project, UC Berkeley Bancroft Oral History Center (Full oral history)
2024
• Interview for the Seventh Wave digital residency, July 2024
• Writing in the Shadows of Tule Lake (Conversation with Akemi Johnson), 7/24
• “How should we talk about the imprisonment of Japanese Americans?” KALW, air date 1/11/24
2023
- Spiritual Grit podcast, air date 10/25/23
- Beyond Generations podcast, air date 9/5/23
- Great Reads From Great Places: National Book Festival Authors (Western I)
2022
- We Art Tacoma podcast, air date 11/4/2022
- “ArtTown: Episode 12,” City of Tacoma Office of Arts and Cultural Vitality
- Opening segment, “Japanese Exclusion,” KCTS (PBS affiliate), air date 2/18//22
- Guest, “Kate and Doug in the morning,” “Voice of Vashon,” radio show
2021
- Black and Yellow Podcast
- Spectrum News, Southern California, interview
- “A new graphic novel draws parallels between wartime incarceration and modern day America” KNKX, Tacoma/Seattle (air date 5/8/22)
- We Hereby Refuse online book launch, Densho/Seattle Public Library/Elliott Bay Books
- We Hereby Refuse online book launch, Wing Luke Asian Museum
- We Hereby Refuse online book launch, King’s Books
- We Hereby Refuse online book launch, Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages
- The Washingtonians behind “We Hereby Refuse” (Seattle Times)
- APEX Radio, Berkeley, “We Hereby Refuse” author interview with Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura
2020
- “Lift as You Climb,” Paw’d Defiance podcast
- “Tamiko Nimura, Writer and Biographer of Senator Rosa Franklin,” We Art Tacoma podcast
- Tacoma Arts Month, Cityline Tacoma interview
- “Tacoma Arts Month looks to connect people feeling isolated because of COVID-19 pandemic,” 10/12/20, Tacoma News Tribune
- “KBTC Profiles: Remembering Tacoma’s Nihonmachi,” KBTC Tacoma
2016
VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color (interviewed by Deesha Philyaw, The Rumpus)
The day Tacoma’s Japantown disappeared (KNKX (NPR))
Chicken adobo tastes like home (KUOW (NPR))
On Giving Back (Video recording, WILLO Tacoma)