{"id":"Station J (play)","doctype":"articles","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Station%20J%20(play)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Station%20J%20(play)/"},"title_sort":"stationjplay","description":"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.","rg_rgmediatype":["plays"],"mediatype_label":"Plays","mediatype_icon":"fa-ticket","categories":[{"title":"Arts"}],"topics":[],"authors":[{"title":"Brian Niiya","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/authors/Brian%20Niiya/","html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/authors/Brian%20Niiya/"}],"sources":[],"title":"Station J (play)","published_rg":true,"modified":"2018-03-01T23:40:33","databoxes":{"rgdatabox-Core":{"rgmediatype":["plays"],"title":["Station J"],"creators":[],"interestlevel":[],"readinglevel":[],"guidedreadinglevel":[],"lexile":[],"theme":[],"genre":[],"pov":[],"relatedevents":[],"availability":[],"freewebversion":["No"],"primarysecondary":[],"hasteachingaids":["No"],"warnings":[],"denshotopic":[],"geography":[],"chronology":[],"facility":[]},"databox-Plays":{"name":["Station J"],"firstdate":["1981-10-01"],"finaldate":[],"location":["East West Players, Los Angeles"],"writer":["Richard France"],"director":["Mako","Alberto Isaac"],"producer":[],"creative":[],"technical":[],"characters":[],"website":[],"playbilllink":[],"ibdbid":[],"iodbid":[],"theatricaliaid":[],"publisher":[],"pubdate":[],"currentpublisher":[],"currentpubdate":[]}},"rg_title":["Station J"],"rg_freewebversion":["No"],"rg_hasteachingaids":["No"],"body":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Plays\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   Name:Station J;\nFirstDate:1981-10-01;\nFinalDate:;\nLocation:East West Players, Los Angeles;\nWriter:Richard France;\nDirector:Mako; Alberto Isaac;\nProducer:;\nCreative:;\nTechnical:;\nCharacters:;\nWebsite:;\nPlaybillLink:;\nIBDBID:;\nIODBID:;\nTheatricaliaID:;\nPublisher:;\nPubDate:;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n  <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n  <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n   <p>\n    RGMediaType:plays;\nTitle:Station J;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:;\nGenre:;\nPoV:;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:;\nFacility:;\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n  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.\n </p>\n <p>\n  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\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Jerome\" title=\"Jerome\">\n   Jerome\n  </a>\n  , where the family has been incarcerated, and Act 3 includes\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Resettlement\" title=\"Resettlement\">\n   resettlement\n  </a>\n  and their journey back to a ransacked home and business in California after Michael has been killed fighting in Europe with the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/442nd_Regimental_Combat_Team\" title=\"442nd Regimental Combat Team\">\n   442nd Regimental Combat Team\n  </a>\n  . The epilogue takes place at the dedication of the Peace Plaza in San Francisco Nihonmachi in 1968.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n  <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n   <h2>\n    <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n     Related Articles\n    </span>\n   </h2>\n   <div class=\"section_content\">\n    <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n    </p>\n    <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n     <div class=\"section\" id=\"\">\n      <h3>\n       <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"\">\n       </span>\n      </h3>\n      <div class=\"section_content\">\n       <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n       </p>\n       <ul>\n        <li>\n         <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Plays_on_incarceration\" title=\"Plays on incarceration\">\n          Plays on incarceration\n         </a>\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   Colborn-Roxworthy, Emily. \"Trading 'Earnest Drama' for Prophecy: Performing Japanese American Internment after 9/11.\"\n   <i>\n    Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism\n   </i>\n   20.2 (Spring 2006): 25–48.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   \"\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1489n74f/entire_text/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Finding Aid for the East West Players Records, 1965–1992\n   </a>\n   .\" Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Imamura, Peter. \"Theater Review: East West's 'Station J.'\"\n   <i>\n    Pacific Citizen\n   </i>\n   , Oct. 9, 1981, 3.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Kurahashi, Yuko.\n   <i>\n    Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players\n   </i>\n   . New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Morioka-Steffens, Tamayo Irene. \"Asian Pacific American Identities: An Historical Perspective Through the Theatre Productions of the East West Players, 1965 to 2000. 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