After Virginia Tech: Asian American students, Don Imus and Heritage Month
The shootings at Virginia Tech shaped much of this issue. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom and Jean H. Lee wrote about anxiety on…
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Davao’s Little Tokyo, the Furuya legacy and the Korematsu, Yasui and Hirabayashi families
A Little Tokyo in the Philippines led the issue. Lynda Lin wrote about Davaokuo, the Japanese enclave in Davao before…
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Okei-san’s gravesite, and a push to preserve Gold Hill Ranch
The Wakamatsu Colony and the grave of Okei-san led the news. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom wrote about Tom Fujimoto and a group…
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Tuna Canyon, Nisei hot rodders and Watada’s second court-martial
The Tuna Canyon Detention Center was the main story of this 12-page issue. Community groups are seeking California State Historic…
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Toyota in NASCAR, a feedlot near Minidoka, and Ehren Watada
Toyota’s arrival in NASCAR’s Nextel Cup Series set off a wave of anti-Japanese comments, and Caroline Aoyagi-Stom reported on it…
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Watada’s mistrial, a Chinese food news report, and Day of Remembrance
The mistrial in the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, who refused deployment to Iraq, ran across the front page…
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Excising the Demon of Silence: Ann Jyono speaks out
Ann Marie Jyono’s story led this 12-page issue. In a front-page feature by Lynda Lin, she told how Father Oliver…
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Special New Year’s Issue: 2006 in review and JACL plans for 2007
The 2006 year in pictures and JACL’s plans for 2007 filled this special New Year’s issue. Retrospectives covered national news,…
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The 2006 holiday issue: written by Asian Pacific American youth
Young writers filled this holiday issue from cover to cover. Executive editor Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom explained in her column that…
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The 2006 midterms and the Watada debate inside JACL
APA candidates and voters were the lead story after the 2006 elections. Lynda Lin reported that Mazie Hirono won in…
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Interracial marriage and the Miyagawa love story, plus Watada letters
The love story of Dick Miyagawa and Marion Smithback ran across the front page and page 12. Lynda Lin told…
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Ehren Watada’s case, the Moe Gang and voting rights
The case of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada ran through this 12-page issue. He faced a possible court martial in January…
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Watada, a racial slur in Minnesota and a JACL headquarters debate
The JACL national board and the case of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada shaped much of this 12-page issue. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom…
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Five years after 9/11, and a look at the 2006 JACL scholarship winners
Five years after September 11, the issue looked at how the attacks changed life for Muslim Americans, with Rasha Madkour…
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Lt. Ehren Watada and a community divided, plus 2006 scholarship winners
The case of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, who refused to deploy to Iraq, ran through much of this 12-page issue.…
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Anti-immigrant billboards, Lt. Watada and a Fresno dentist in Iraq
Immigration and the Iraq war ran through the front page. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom reported on the ‘Stop the Invasion’ billboards spreading…
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Ehren Watada, a late-life identity shift and immigrant families
Lt. Ehren Watada was the lead story. Executive Editor Caroline Aoyagi-Stom interviewed him just after the U.S. Army officially charged…
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Lt. Ehren Watada charged: JACL and Honolulu chapter respond
Army charges against First Lt. Ehren Watada, who refused deployment to Iraq, led this 12-page issue. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom reported that…