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…
Print Issue: 1980
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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…
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Wendy Tokuda in Placer County, and a JACL debate over Years of Infamy
Wendy Tokuda of KPIX-TV Channel 5 led the front page, speaking to about 200 people at the Placer County JACL’s…
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Redress prospects dim under Reagan, and a Central California convention
Redress led the front page of this eight-page issue. The National JACL Redress Committee met in San Francisco and concluded…
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Hawaii elections, redress strategy and a new Little Tokyo mall
The Pacific Citizen’s front page reported on Hawaii’s Nov. 4 elections, where Sen. Daniel Inouye and Reps. Cecil Heftel and…
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The 1980 elections and what Reagan’s win meant for redress
The Pacific Citizen turned to the aftermath of the Nov. 4 elections. On the front page, the JACL Washington Office…
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Bias charges in Virginia, a Rose Parade queen and the JACL candidates
Maya Hasegawa, who ran Virginia’s equal employment opportunity office, filed discrimination charges against her boss after being passed over for…
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Redress, the wartime commission and national origin rules in 1980
Redress ran through this issue. The front page reported nominations for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians,…
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1980 fall issue: Nikkei concerns in Los Angeles and a JACL leadership search
The Pacific Citizen’s front page carried a Kashu Mainichi survey of Nikkei in greater Los Angeles, which named three serious…
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Filipino reclassification dispute and a Shogun debate in the pages
The front page carried a dispute over a Los Angeles County survey to reclassify Filipino Americans as a separate ethnic…
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JACL apologizes to Michi Weglyn over redress testimony
The front page carried a public apology: on Sept. 30 the Japanese American Citizens League apologized to Michi Weglyn for…
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Redress, Shogun, and a Little Tokyo high rise
The front page opened with Little Tokyo, where Merit Service Corp. announced plans for a 20-30 story office, condominium and…
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Wendy Yoshimura’s first free weekend, and JACL after the 1980 convention
The front page followed Wendy Yoshimura through her first free weekend, a drive to Fresno to see her parents, Frank…
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Redress commission signed, plus the Shogun debate
The Pacific Citizen reported on the newly signed commission bill to examine the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans,…
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Tsujimura’s board plans and redress priorities, September 1980
The front page opened on the new JACL leadership. National president Jim Tsujimura announced plans to hold national board meetings…
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JACL budget fight at the 1980 convention and the redress bill
The front page carried the 26th biennial National JACL Convention in San Francisco, where delegates debated and passed a record…