Heart Mountain, the Supreme Court and Nisei volunteers, May 1943
Bill Hosokawa, editor of the Heart Mountain Sentinel, answered a senator’s claim that 80 percent of the incarcerees at Heart…
Print Issue: 1943
-
-
Supreme Court test cases and the Tokyo executions, April 1943
The coming Supreme Court hearing on the evacuation test cases led the news. The National JACL will file a friend-of-court…
-
General DeWitt’s anti-Japanese remark and its fallout
General DeWitt’s statement that “a Jap’s a Jap” dominated the news in this eight-page issue. The front page reported that…
-
Hawaiian Nisei volunteers arrive at Camp Shelby, and a general’s remarks
The new Army combat team and the debate over Japanese Americans’ place in the country filled this eight-page issue. About…
-
Nisei and the draft: April 1943 news from the relocation centers
Military service for Japanese Americans was the subject that ran through this eight-page issue. A dispatch on page one reported…
-
Honolulu’s send-off for the Nisei combat team, and two cases bound for the Supreme Court
Two stories shared the front page. In Honolulu, nearly 20,000 people, mostly Japanese Americans, bid aloha to 2,600 soldiers of…
-
Volunteers for the Army combat team: March 25, 1943
Japanese American volunteers for a new Army combat team were the main news of this eight-page issue. Secretary of War…
-
Manpower, the new combat team and the fight over relocation, 1943
Japanese American labor and service during the war dominated this eight-page issue. JACL representatives Mike Masaoka, Joe Masaoka and Larry…
-
1943: Hawaii volunteers for the nisei combat team
Nearly ten thousand volunteers in Hawaii led the news. The War Department announced that figure for the army’s new Japanese…
-
The Nisei combat unit, registration and the Arizona zone, 1943
The call for a Japanese American combat unit ran through this eight-page issue. The Army said the unit would be…
-
Registration at the ten camps and the court fight over citizenship
Registration of adult evacuees for military service and for job clearances was the main news of this eight-page issue. It…
-
Court tests, the Army combat team and a new Arkansas land law
Two stories shared the front page of this eight-page issue. A seven-judge court was set to hear the Korematsu, Hirabayashi…
-
Nisei volunteer for the Army’s new combat team, February 1943
The Army’s decision to accept American-born Japanese for combat duty dominated the paper. In Hawaii, draft offices were jammed within…
-
The Army’s call for Nisei volunteers, and a beating at Poston
The War Department’s announcement of a combat team of Japanese American volunteers filled this eight-page issue. News stories reported general…
-
The Army’s call for Nisei volunteers, and unrest at Manzanar
The War Department’s announcement of a special Japanese American combat unit led this eight-page issue. Nisei from the relocation centers…
-
Senate inquiry into the relocation centers, January 1943
The future of the relocation centers was the main story. The Senate military affairs committee moved to return the ten…