Justin's Japan: George Takei Comes to Japan Society

By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page here for related stories.Start 2016 off right by heading down to Japan Society for some fantastic new year’s fare. This month’s events celebrate the power of theater, with productions that examine international relations between East and West, celebrating a century of growing diversity but also spotlighting a stormy past. Treat yourself and catch a break from the cold.This month’s highlight:Monday, Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m.George Takei: From Barbed Wire to BroadwayJapan Society, 333 East 47th StreetSOLD OUT. Limited tickets may be released; please call the box office on January 19 at (212) 715-1258 to check availability."Too few people know about that dark chapter of American history," film and television star, pop culture icon and social media powerhouse George Takei (Star Trek, Heroes) told The Daily Show's Jon Stewart in 2014, "when American citizens of Japanese ancestry were summarily rounded up with no charges, no trial no due process—the core pillar of our justice system—and put in barbed wire prison camps simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor." In George Takei: From Barbed Wire to Broadway, Takei shares memories from the troubling chapter of American history when some 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes.For the complete story, click here.