Japanese-American author reflects on SLO's forgotten Japantown, holds writing workshop
Japanese-American author Shizue Seigel has come back to the Central Coast decades after her family was pushed out by anti-Asian immigration laws. S...
Japanese-American author Shizue Seigel has come back to the Central Coast decades after her family was pushed out by anti-Asian immigration laws. She said she is on a journey to expand the land's historical narrative by holding writing workshops for creatives of all backgrounds to tell their stories. Seigel is a third-generation Japanese-American. Her family lived in SLO County when the California Alien Land Law was first being introduced. The Alien Land Law was discriminatory legislation that prohibited Asian immigrants from owning land in California.