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When we think about Japanese American activism we may immediately think of the iconic 1980s Redress Movement. But what about JA activism today? Glenn Omatsu …
A room erupts in a roar of laughter, a well-prepared yet spontaneous meeting of the Nikkei Student Union. This joyous gathering is a typical event …
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Seventy years ago, 76 University of British Columbia students were not able to complete their degrees simply because they were of Japanese descent. On Wednesday, …
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When President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, he sent 110,000 innocent Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals to …
"Everywhere there is community feeling to be mended, vicious legislation to be defeated, many urgent jobs calling for attention from real friends of the real …
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In the 1930s Paul T. Hirohata gathered copies of speeches given by forty-nine Nisei valedictorians and published them in a collection called Orations and Essays. …
This spring, ten students in the Occidental College Asian Studies seminar “Japanophilia” had the opportunity to get to know some of the business leaders of …
Carly Gutzmann (14) and Michelle Reed (14) are friends who live in Minnesota. In the fall of 2006, they decided to make a documentary for …
Kyodo Taiko was the first collegiate taiko group formed in North America, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kyodo means “family” or literally, “loud …
For over 20 years, the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) has presented its annual Children’s Day Festival in celebration of the traditional Japanese …
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