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Tue, Apr 17 2012

A Degree of Frustration

Also tagged: 442nd regimental combat team, Azusa Pacific University, C.L. Max Nikias, dale minami, Evelyn Shimazu Yee, executive order 9066, gwen muranaka, Henry Kondo, Hitoshi Sameshima, Japanese Trojan Club, Jiro Oishi, Joanne Kumamoto, jonathan kaji, Lewis E. Ford, Mikey Hirano Culross, Nikkei students, pearl harbor, redress and reparations, rufus b. von kleinsmid, Scott M. Mory, State Assembly Bill 37, the California Nisei College Diploma Project, University of Southern California, USC El Rodeo, USC honorary degree, warren furutani

The Japanese Trojan Club is pictured in the 1942 edition of the USC yearbook, El Rodeo. Believed to be present in the photo are Kody Kodama, Henry Kondo, Jiro Oishi and Hitoshi Sameshima, who is expected...

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Wed, Jan 4 2012

Civil Rights Icon Gordon Hirabayashi Dies at 93

Also tagged: afsc, American University of Beirut, Arthur Barnett, Bill Makino, civil disobedience, CIVIL RIGHTS, CONCENTRATION CAMP, coram nobis, Coronado National Forest, Dawn's Light, Esther Hirabayashi, fred korematsu, GORDON HIRABAYASHI, Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site, hero, INCARCERATION, INTERNMENT CAMP, James Hirabayashi, Jay Hirabyashi, JEANNE SAKATA, Judge Lloyd Black, lane hirabayashi, leaders, Min Yasui, Minoru Yasui, Peter Irons, Puyallup Assembly Center, quakers, Santa Catalina Mountains, seattle, STEVEN OKAZAKI, Supreme Court, tule lake, Unfinished Business, University of Alberta, University of Washington, WWII, YMCA

Hirabayashi (left) is joined by fellow coram nobis plaintiffs Min Yasui and Fred Korematsu in 1983. He was the last surviving plaintiff who challenged the legality of the wartime exclusion and incarceration...

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Thu, Dec 8 2011

Indelible Memories of a Fateful Day

Also tagged: aiko herzig-yoshinaga, Asian Americans for Action, crusaders, Dec. 7 1941, Densho, diane tanaka, EO 9066, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, fred korematsu, General DeWitt, GORDON HIRABAYASHI, Harlem, Japanese Evacuation, manzanar, Min Yasu, nisei, pearl harbor, Redress, Triple-A, WRA, YURI KOCHIYAMA

Civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama is interviewed for the Densho oral history archives. === By DIANE TANAKA RAFU CONTRIBUTOR === The lives of Japanese Americans would forever be changed following Dec....

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Thu, Oct 27 2011

A New Beginning for ‘Farewell to Manzanar’

Also tagged: Akemi Kikumura, American Pastime, Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Chris Komai, CICELY TYSON, clyde kusatsu, Come See the Paradise, CONCENTRATION CAMP, Dori Takeshita, east west players, Farewell to Manzanar, frank chin, Hiro Narita, If Tomorrow Comes, INTERNMENT CAMP, James Houston, janm, jeanne wakatsuki houston, John Korty, Lawson Inada, Mako, manzanar, Maria Kwong, Midway, Minidoka, Mitsu Yashima, Momo Yashima, NBC Universal, Nobu McCarthy, Pat Morita, Paul Chihara, Richard Hashimoto, Robert Kinoshita, Shawn Wong, Snow Falling on Cedars, Taro Yashima, tule lake, Wendy Shiba, WWII, Yuki Shimoda

From left: Actor Clyde Kusatsu, composer Paul Chihara, actress Momo Yashima, director John Korty. (J.K. Yamamoto/Rafu Shimpo) === By J.K. YAMAMOTO Rafu Staff Writer === Two screenings of “Farewell to...

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Thu, Oct 6 2011

HORSE’S MOUTH: Macadamia Nuts with Spam!

Also tagged: CHOPSTICKS, CONCENTRATION CAMP, Food, GARY OKIHIRO, george yoshinaga, Harry Honda, heart mountain, horse, INTERNMENT CAMP, las vegas, PAUL SHIMOKUCHI, relocation center, santa anita

By GEORGE YOSHINAGA (First published in The Rafu Shimpo on Oct. 4, 2011.) === Harry Honda sent me a clipping from a local newspaper that touches on something many of you may not be aware of. That is,...

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Thu, Sep 29 2011

Student Receives Grant to Restore Rohwer Cemetery

Also tagged: anti-Japanese, arkansas, confinement sites, GRANTS, little rock, national park service, NPS, pearl harbor, RACISM, rohwer, Tamisha Cheatham

Former internees visit the cemetery at the Rohwer internment camp in September 2004. (NAO GUNJI/Rafu Shimpo) LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—University of Arkansas at Little Rock graduate student Tamisha Cheatham...

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Fri, Sep 9 2011

Filmmaker Looks at Parallels Between JA, Muslim American Experiences

Also tagged: 9/11, Clear Heart Gallery, Enmanji, Lina Hoshino, MUSLIM AMERICANS, Petaluma Film Series, Petaluma Progressives, Sonoma County

Lina Hoshino PETALUMA — In observance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Petaluma Progressives will present two films by Lina Hoshino on Friday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Clear Heart Gallery, 368B Petaluma...

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Thu, Sep 8 2011

HORSE’S MOUTH: Am I Horse or Mouse?

Also tagged: bacon sakatani, CONCENTRATION CAMP, FU SHING, heart mountain, HEAT WAVE, horse, INTERNMENT CAMP, KAZ MARUMOTO, KEN AZEBU, las vegas, mike antonovich, Steve Aoki, summer, sumo, wyoming, ZOMBIE YAMAMOTO

By GEORGE YOSHINAGA (First published in The Rafu Shimpo on Sept. 3, 2011.) === In a recent column I used a piece submitted to me by Bacon Sakatani on his views of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center...

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Thu, Sep 1 2011

HORSE’S MOUTH: Bacon Sakatani’s Tidbits on Heart Mountain Opening

Also tagged: bacon sakatani, CODY, CONCENTRATION CAMP, ellen endo, george yoshinaga, hawaii, heart mountain, heart mountain interpretive learning center, HEAT WAVE, HEATWAVE, horse, horse's mouth, INTERNMENT CAMP, JERI FUJIOKA, JERI FUJIOKA-WICKSTROM, Keiichi Ikeda, las vegas, los angeles, maui, relocation, summer, WWII, wyoming, YELLOWSTONE

By GEORGE YOSHINAGA (First published in The Rafu Shimpo on August 30, 2011.) === LAS VEGAS — Gee, it seems like only a week ago I was here in my favorite city. Well, actually it’s more like two weeks. I...

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Thu, Aug 18 2011

Densho Announces National Park Service Grants

Also tagged: Densho, education, GRANTS, INCARCERATION, jacs, JAPANESE AMERICAN LEGACY PROJECT, NON-PROFIT, PACIFIC NORTHWEST, seattle, TOM IKEDA, WWII

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, which owns the largest archive of visual testimonies on the Japanese American World War II incarceration experience, has announced it was awarded two grants...

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Tag Archives: internment

A Degree of Frustration

Civil Rights Icon Gordon Hirabayashi Dies at 93

Indelible Memories of a Fateful Day

A New Beginning for ‘Farewell to Manzanar’

HORSE’S MOUTH: Macadamia Nuts with Spam!

Student Receives Grant to Restore Rohwer Cemetery

Filmmaker Looks at Parallels Between JA, Muslim American Experiences

HORSE’S MOUTH: Am I Horse or Mouse?

HORSE’S MOUTH: Bacon Sakatani’s Tidbits on Heart Mountain Opening

Densho Announces National Park Service Grants

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