Columnists – Page 2 – Pacific Citizen

Columnists Reflections

Reflections: Layers Lost and Voices United — Live From Albuquerque, It’s a Wrap

Gregory Suko JACL New Mexico Chapter As many traveled from planes, trains and automobiles to the Land of Enchantment, we…

GarrettAugust 8, 2025

Columnists Legal-Ease

Legal-Ease An Attorney’s Perspective: How to Pay for Long-Term Care

Judd Matsunaga Sixty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. He said, “There is another tradition…

GarrettJuly 18, 2025

Columnists JACL President Reflections

Reflections: Alien Enemies Act Is Being Dangerously Misapplied

Larry Oda The Japanese American Citizens League, the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization, was founded in…

GarrettJuly 18, 2025

Aizumi Columnists

A Mother’s Take: Embracing MDS

When I first heard my diagnosis of MDS or preleukemia, I walked around in shock and disbelief. I didn’t feel…

GarrettJuly 4, 2025

Columnists Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, Why should the fact that “Little Tokyo is a Community of Immigrants” protect or exempt us from immigration…

GarrettJuly 4, 2025

Columnists JACL Politics Reflections

Reflections: When Inclusion Becomes a Political Weapon: Why JACL Arizona Leaders Oppose SB 1301

By Bill Staples Jr., Donna Cheung and Kathy Nakagawa In recent weeks, the Arizona chapter of the Japanese American Citizens…

GarrettJune 20, 2025

Columnists Reflections

Reflections: ‘My Baachan and Jiichan Were Not in a Jap Camp’

Katie Masano Hill On June 10, 2025, in the Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee in…

GarrettJune 20, 2025

Columnists Legal-Ease

Legal-Ease: An Attorney’s Perspective — ‘Potentially Inappropriate’ Medications

Judd Matsunaga No doubt about it — modern day science and medicine are keeping people alive a lot longer. Medications…

GarrettJune 20, 2025

Columnists Executive Director JACL JACL President

From the Executive Director: Painful Changes to Preserve JACL

David Inoue Larry Oda As we entered 2025, we realized we needed to address a significant and increasingly regular gap…

GarrettJune 20, 2025

Community JACL News Youth

Sacramento JACL Awards 2025 Scholarships

Pictured (from left) are Sacramento JACL chapter scholarship recipients Eden Engelhardt, Remy Tanamachi, Madeline Sugimoto, Luka Davis, William DeAnda and…

GarrettJune 20, 2025