The Hiroshima Maidens arrive, and a statehood bill fails
Twenty-five Hiroshima Maidens, young women scarred by the atomic bomb, arrived in the United States for medical care, and Larry…
Print Issue: 1955
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Hawaii-Alaska statehood stalls and a look back at Madame Butterfly
The House voted 218-170 to send the combined Hawaii-Alaska statehood bill back to committee, and JACL vowed to keep pressing…
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Lies about Japanese Americans in a 1948 textbook, and a school book fight
Larry Tajiri’s front-page column took on a 1948 college textbook, Modern World Politics, which repeated discredited wartime charges of Japanese…
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Sadakichi Hartmann, evacuation claims and new Issei citizens
Larry Tajiri’s front-page story looked at Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, a German-Japanese American writer who had lived in the United States…
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Sadakichi Hartmann’s ghost and a Nisei appointed to West Point
A plagiarism suit against Gene Fowler brought Sadakichi Hartmann back into the news, and Larry Tajiri’s front-page column told the…
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Interracial romance on screen and a Georgia marriage case
Intermarriage was the thread running through the front of this eight-page issue. Larry Tajiri’s Vagaries column looked at a new…
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Nisei loyalty and Issei citizenship at the 1955 EDC-MDC convention
The joint Eastern and Midwest District Council JACL convention in Washington led this 12-page issue. Vice-President Richard Nixon greeted delegates…
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Naturalized Issei, alien land law repeal and a housing bias case
Newly naturalized Issei were a thread through this eight-page issue. Chapters in Hayward and St. Anthony, Idaho, honored new citizens,…
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A San Leandro home sale blocked by a death threat, and a deposed racist politician
Housing discrimination in San Leandro was the news that most touched the community in this eight-page issue. Dr. Satoru Larry…
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Gate of Hell and the push on evacuation claims
Japanese films winning prizes abroad opened this eight-page issue. Larry Tajiri wrote in his Vagaries column about Gate of Hell,…
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Bowling records, Idaho’s land law repeal and the Hillings claims bill
Three records fell at the ninth annual National JACL Bowling Tournament in Long Beach, where more than 500 bowlers rolled.…
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Orphan visas, evacuation claims and immigration reform, March 1955
Legislation affecting Japanese Americans filled the front page. Japanese orphans were receiving American visas under the Refugee Relief Act of…
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Record bowling turnout and the push for Hawaii-Alaska statehood
A record 107 teams were headed to Long Beach for the ninth annual National JACL bowling tournament, March 2-6, 1955,…
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Evacuation claims legislation and a citizenship case in the Ninth Circuit
Evacuation claims led this 8-page issue. A Committee on Japanese American Evacuation Claims was preparing legislation so that internee losses…
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Hawaii statehood bills and Issei naturalization, February 1955
Hawaii statehood led the news on February 11, 1955. Bills had been referred to the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees…
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Yen debt claims, refugee visas and evacuation claims in early 1955
Claims and immigration law filled the front page. The U.S. Attorney General asked Congress to dismiss about 17,500 yen debt…