Station J (play)

Epic three-hour play by Richard France on the wartime exclusion, incarceration, and return of the Shigeta family told in three acts, each consisting of six scenes and a prologue and a epilogue. The play was part of the 1981–82 seasons of both East West Players in Los Angeles and the Pan Asian Repertory Theater in New York; both Asian American theater companies devoted that season to plays on the Japanese American World War II incarceration.

The Shigeta family includes Issei patriarch Chiyoji Shigeta, a noted breeder of roses; matriarch Yuki, who runs the household; two sons, Taro and Kenji, and a daughter, Emiko, who live with the family; and another son, Michael, who has enlisted in the army prior to the war. Act 1 covers their forced removal, Act 2 takes place at Jerome , where the family has been incarcerated, and Act 3 includes resettlement and their journey back to a ransacked home and business in California after Michael has been killed fighting in Europe with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team . The epilogue takes place at the dedication of the Peace Plaza in San Francisco Nihonmachi in 1968.