The end of the WRA: returned families moved to the Winona trailer camp
The closing of the War Relocation Authority drove the news in this eight-page issue. County officials in Los Angeles charged…
Print Issue: 1946
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The Oyama land law case, deportations and the Nisei record
The Oyama case led the news. The California Supreme Court will hear the test of the state’s anti-alien land law…
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A bill to compensate evacuees, and the fight against housing bias
Compensation for wartime losses led the news. Interior Secretary J. A. Krug urged Congress to create an Evacuation Claims Commission…
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After the war: Nisei soldiers, Issei citizenship suits and camp closings
Three Issei, each the father of a U.S. serviceman, filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles to test their…
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The 442nd’s awards, WRA closings and Nisei stranded in Japan
Nisei stranded in Japan by the outbreak of war in 1941 were the lead story. State Department and other officials…
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April 1946: travel bans, lost property and Nisei veterans coming home
Japanese Americans were still sorting out the aftermath of the war in this April 13, 1946 issue. The front page…
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Closing housing projects and the threat of eviction for returnees
The closing of emergency housing projects for returned Japanese Americans led the news in April 1946. Church service groups protested…
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Tule Lake closes and the ‘third evacuation’ begins
The closing of the Tule Lake relocation center led the news. Releases that arrived at the eleventh hour spared 102…
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Wounded Nisei veterans on the Hayes, and Tule Lake closes
Forty-four wounded Nisei veterans said they were forced to travel in the hold of the Navy transport President Hayes while…
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Medal of Honor for Sadao Munemori, and the closing of the camps
The posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for Private First Class Sadao S. Munemori of Los Angeles led this issue. A…
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The 1946 JACL convention in Denver and Okada’s election as president
The JACL’s national convention in Denver filled much of this issue. Okada, formerly national treasurer, was elected to succeed Saburo…
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Nisei stranded in Japan, and a JACL conference looks ahead
Japanese Americans stranded in Japan by the war were the subject of the lead story in this eight-page issue. An…
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Nisei in Japan, a draft case release and JACL’s Denver convention
Japanese Americans in Japan after the war were the subject of several stories on the front page. Nisei who were…
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February 1946: land law suits, deportation relief and the Denver convention
California’s Alien Land Law was the thread running through this eight-page issue. Escheat suits were filed against families in Madera…
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Closing the camps and returning home: February 1946
The winding down of wartime incarceration ran through this 8-page issue. The Tule Lake segregation center’s closing date was extended…
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The 1946 alien land law prosecutions and the return of evacuees to California
California’s push to enforce its alien land law against Japanese American farm owners led this 8-page issue. Larry Tajiri argued…