Taro Yamasaki’s Pulitzer, and the WWII surveillance debate
Taro Yamasaki of the Detroit Free Press won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, and the front page carried one…
Category: Issue archive
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Redress hearings ahead: JACL prepares as the 1980 Census arrives
The Pacific Citizen’s April 17, 1981 issue followed JACL’s preparations for redress hearings. Minoru Yasui of Denver was named chair…
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Reagan’s economics, gun control and the Redress movement in 1981
Nisei economist Sam I. Nakagama led the front page, telling a Stanford energy conference that President Reagan’s economic plan was…
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Redress hearings, Hawaii’s courts and the JACL president’s Japan trip
Outrage over Hawaii’s justice system led the front page: nearly 2,000 demonstrators gathered outside Honolulu’s Judiciary Building after the acquittal…
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Redress, senior housing and a new JACL redress chair
Redress ran through this issue. Following John Tateishi’s resignation, Minoru Yasui of Denver was named to chair the JACL National…
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Redress hearings take shape: the Commission names its chair
The March 20, 1981 issue followed the early work of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Joan…
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Mineta’s nuclear veterans bill and the ‘Go For Broke’ exhibit
The front page carried two stories about veterans. Rep. Norman Y. Mineta introduced HR 1733, a bill that would presume…
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Census shows Asian-Pacific American population doubled, and redress looms
The 1980 census was the main story. The Census Bureau reported a 128% increase in the Asian and Pacific Islander…
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Redress commission named, plus the Stockton JACL anniversary
The front page carried news on the EO 9066 redress effort: after President Reagan signed S.253 on Feb. 10, the…
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Redress research, Day of Remembrance plans and Tateishi’s resignation
The front page carried news of the redress campaign. The Bay Area Attorneys for Redress, a group made up mostly…
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A ‘Go For Broke!’ exhibit opens and Ron Wakabayashi becomes JACL director
The front page carried news of the “Go For Broke!” exhibit at the Army Museum at the Presidio in San…
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Redress commission grows to nine; mixed heritage and JACL profiles
Redress led the news. Congress passed legislation expanding the Presidential Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians from seven…
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Redress funding, Reagan’s Congress and chapter news in early 1981
Rep. Norman Mineta told a San Jose Rotary Club that President Reagan would face more trouble in the Republican-controlled Senate…
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A diplomat robbed in Japantown and new questions on census data and redress
The front page carried a robbery in San Francisco’s Japantown, where Japanese deputy consul general Gohachiro Shono was accosted by…
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Carter names Marutani to the redress commission on wartime incarceration
The front page carried the news that President Carter named Judge William M. Marutani, Dr. Arthur Flemming and Joan Bernstein…
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New Year Special Double Issue: JACL leadership, redress and Shogun
The New Year Special Double Issue opened 1981 with news from JACL and the redress effort. The front page reported…
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The 1980 holiday issue: Issei history, incarceration memory and fiction
The Pacific Citizen’s 1980 holiday issue ran 112 pages and leaned toward history and memory. The front page opened a…
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Redress funding, a fired teacher and a JACL budget gap
Redress and the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians ran through the front page and the commentary. Congress…