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June 28, 2019

L.A. Life: Part II

Tak Kikuchi (bottom right), Dennis Kikuchi (top right) and staff. (Photo: Courtesy of Tak Kikuchi) Taks’s: From hashbrowns to hardware, it all stems from memories and traditions...
June 28, 2019

Preserving Salt Lake City’s Historic Japantown

Intermountain Buddhist Church cabinet members, circa 1935, in Salt Lake City. Community efforts are needed to help keep Japantown Street a viable cultural center. By JACL 2019...
June 14, 2019

Welcome to the ‘Crossroads of the West’

Salt Lake City, home to the Salt Lake Temple, will host the 2019 JACL National Convention. Salt Lake City, home to this year’s JACL National Convention, offers a vibrant city...
May 31, 2019

Living in South L.A. Today as a Japanese American

Tak’s Hardware on Jefferson Boulevard in South Los Angeles is a vestige of a once-vibrant Japanese American community that resided in the city’s largely African...

June 28, 2019 • Community, News •

Harada House Foundation Receives Grant

Funds are given to help restore and maintain the home, which played a crucial role in the history of civil rights in...
June 28, 2019 • Community, News •

Puyallup Valley JACL Holds Scholarship and Installation Luncheon

The Puyallup Valley JACL chapter hosted its annual scholarship and installation luncheon in the social hall of the...
June 28, 2019 • Community, News •

How Do We Actually #NeverAgainIsNow

JACL Philadelphia chapter members and UPenn students together protest operations of the Berks Family Detention Center....
June 20, 2019 • Community, News •

Nishikawa’s ‘Lost Years’ Docu to Screen in Little Tokyo

The Los Angeles premiere of the documentary “Our Lost Years” will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 23 in Little...
June 14, 2019 • Community, News •

GFBNEC Center to Host a New Microexhibition

‘Fire for Effect: Journey of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion’ LOS ANGELES — Go For Broke National Education...

May 31, 2019 •
MIS, 442nd Double–Play Coming to Los Angeles
May 10, 2019 •
Norman Mineta’s Legacy Chronicled on PBS
October 26, 2018 •
‘American Peril: Imagining the Foreign Threat’ Exhibit Preview

June 28, 2019 • National, News •

Attorney Dale Minami to Receive the 2019 ABA Medal

The distinction is the American Bar Assn.’s highest honor. The American Bar Assn. will honor Minami Tamaki LLP Senior Counsel Dale...
June 28, 2019 • JACL, National, News, Politics •

JACL Voices Strong Opposition to the Expanded Incarceration of Children at Fort...

Additional organizations also join in peaceful protest of the Trump administration’s plan to detain unaccompanied minors at the Oklahoma...
June 14, 2019 • National, News •

Volunteers Invited to Join Public Archeology Project at Manzanar

INDEPENDENCE, Calif. — Manzanar’s award-winning  public archeology program provides exceptional opportunities to learn about the past...
June 14, 2019 • National, News •

Traveling Exhibit Educates and Unites Arizonans

‘Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II’ wraps up its run in the Grand Canyon state. The Smithsonian Traveling exhibit...
June 14, 2019 • National, News •

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Meets With API Council Members

Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with  members of the API Council at JACL  national headquarters in San Francisco  on May 13. The API...
June 14, 2019 • National, News •

California Civil Liberties Projects Announced

Thirty-one California projects on civil liberty issues are funded — from the Japanese American WWII experience to present day. SACRAMENTO...
May 31, 2019 • National, News •

JACL Recognizes AAPI Day Against Bullying and Hate

By David Inoue and Sarah Baker WASHINGTON, D.C. — May 18, 2019, would have been Vincent Chin’s 64th birthday. Vincent Chin, a Chinese...

July 9, 2019 • AARP, Columnists •

Reimagine Everything: TSA Expects Busiest Travel Season Ever: What Can I Bring

Are you traveling to Salt Lake City this year for the JACL National Convention? If so, you’ll be in good company with a record number of...

June 28, 2019 • Columnists, Legal-Ease •

Legal-Ease: An Attorney’s Perspective: Getting Old Is Not for Sissies

I believe it was Bette Davis (April 5, 1908-Oct. 6, 1989), a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and...

June 14, 2019 • Asakawa, Columnists •

Nikkei Voice: ‘Always Be My Baby’ Is a Crazy Great Asian American...

“Crazy Rich Asians” was such a surprising success to Hollywood’s power brokers last year that its ripple  effects have included...

L.A. Life: Part II

Preserving Salt Lake City’s Historic Japantown

Welcome to the ‘Crossroads of the West’

Living in South L.A. Today as a Japanese American

Community News

Harada House Foundation Receives Grant

Puyallup Valley JACL Holds Scholarship and Installation Luncheon

How Do We Actually #NeverAgainIsNow

Nishikawa’s ‘Lost Years’ Docu to Screen in Little Tokyo

GFBNEC Center to Host a New Microexhibition

Entertainment

MIS, 442nd Double–Play Coming to Los Angeles

Norman Mineta’s Legacy Chronicled on PBS

‘American Peril: Imagining the Foreign Threat’ Exhibit Preview

National News

Attorney Dale Minami to Receive the 2019 ABA Medal

JACL Voices Strong Opposition to the Expanded Incarceration of Children at Fort...

Volunteers Invited to Join Public Archeology Project at Manzanar

Traveling Exhibit Educates and Unites Arizonans

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Meets With API Council Members

California Civil Liberties Projects Announced

JACL Recognizes AAPI Day Against Bullying and Hate

Ron Mori

Reimagine Everything: TSA Expects Busiest Travel Season Ever: What Can I Bring

Judd Matsunaga

Legal-Ease: An Attorney’s Perspective: Getting Old Is Not for Sissies

Gil Asakawa

Nikkei Voice: ‘Always Be My Baby’ Is a Crazy Great Asian American...

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