On Generational Differences in JABA’s Early Years

On the Impact of the Camp Experience Coming into Japanese Culture and Heritage “I had no idea about studying law…” “How did I end up going to law school?” Opening Up Shop in Little Tokyo The Other Two JA women lawyers in Los Angeles—Chiyoko Sakamoto and Madge Watai On Generational Differences in JABA’s Early Years The Founding of JABA: Getting Judges Appointed “If I hadn’t gone to that meeting…” On Hon. Edward Kakita and JABA’s early efforts JABA: On Engaging Students and Community On the Importance of Role Models On Getting the Call from J. Anthony Kline On Being a New Judge and a New Mother On Justice Todd’s Daughter, Mia Doi Todd On Justice Todd’s Involvement with the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center On Working in the Appellate Court

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It’s interesting, but a lot of the older lawyers were not really interested in starting a separate, you know, Japanese American Bar Association. They thought it would be much more important for us to be involved with the LA County Bar or the other bar associations. And I think you might notice in sort of the early membership roles, that most of the lawyers, most of the people who were really active, were younger. The older people [lawyers], they might have joined, but they weren’t really at all active, the old sort of established lawyers, they never [sic: rarely] came.

Date: July 10, 2012
Location: California, US
Interviewer: Lawrence Lan
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum; Japanese American Bar Association

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