简介

Tetsuden (Tetsu) Kashima, born in Oakland, California and as an infant with his family, the government and military placed nearly 120.000 other Japanese Americans into American concentration camps during World War II. After the war, he grew up in San Diego, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, for his undergraduate degree, and his doctorate in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He came to the University of Washington in 1976 as the Director of Asian American Studies Program; later the UW formed the Department of American Ethnic Studies with African American, Asian American and Chicano Studies. He is a nationally recognized scholar of Asian American studies and Sociology -- especially in the areas of Japanese American internment and incarceration during World War II, Japanese American values and interpersonal relations, and Japanese American religiosity. He has published books and articles and invited to be a visiting professor at two Japanese universities (Ryukoku University, Kyoto, and Yamaguchi National University,Yamaguchi). He has presented lectures, given conference papers, and been the keynote speakers at other universities in Japan and the United States.