Star Trek” actor and activist George Takei tells CNN’s Audie Cornish about his family’s experience in a 1940’s ...

In a CNN interview, Star Trek actor George Takei warned about political hysteria, comparing his WWII Japanese internment ...

ABOUT THE COSTUME. "The Japanese women tie on their obis with another little sash, or little bit of silk that goes on above the obi. I wear one, red, to give the color effect above my yellow obi ...

Japanese American actor Paul Nakauchi, who portrays the samurai marksman Hanzo in Overwatch, says Asian-Americans have been underrepresented in mainstream culture.

After being labeled an “enemy alien” during World War II, Hiroshi Miyamura later served his country with distinction — ...

The Japanese-American actor, who was born and raised in Utah, says he was just thrilled to see they were casting an Asian in any movie Getty;Universal Pictures Gedde Watanabe now, and as Long Duck ...

Japanese cinema has a long, rich tradition of acting excellence. From the early days of the silent era until the present, Japan has birthed some of the greatest film actors of the twentieth and ...

Tokyo — The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World War II is a historical experience that has traumatized and galvanized the Japanese ...

After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the US arrested 125,000 Japanese-Americans, merely because of their ancestry. Some worry it could happen again.

George Hosato Takei was born in Los Angeles, California in 1937 to middle class Japanese-American parents. He began his acting career as a young man in the late 1950s, moving through the limited ...

Voice actor Taiki Matsuno died at 56 this week from a cerebral hemorrhage. He voiced Spongebob in the Japanese dub of the show for nearly 20 years.

During a podcast interview with CNN host Audie Cornish this week, "Star Trek" actor George Takei compared Trump detaining ...