The 1983 holiday issue: Ruth Aiko Sasaki’s ‘The Loom’ and Little Tokyo
The Pacific Citizen’s 129-page holiday issue opened with “The Loom,” Ruth Aiko Sasaki’s short story, the first prize winner of…
Print Issue: 1983
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Redress, civil rights and the coram nobis cases, December 1983
Civil rights ran through this December 1983 issue. The front page carried a Supreme Court case on whether labor laws…
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Immigration reform, redress and JACL’s meeting with Prime Minister Nakasone
Immigration reform and redress led the front page. House Speaker Thomas O’Neill said he would allow a vote on an…
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Reagan in Tokyo, the Vincent Chin case, and redress debates in 1983
President Ronald Reagan’s address to the Japanese Diet led the front page, and he singled out Issei Kanaye Nagasawa, known…
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Redress comes to the Senate: the November 25, 1983 issue
Redress was the lead story. Sen. Spark M. Matsunaga introduced S 2116 with 13 colleagues, a bill to carry out…
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Korematsu ruling and the CWRIC backlash: November 1983
The Pacific Citizen led its November 18, 1983 issue with two stories tied to redress. A hearing on the CWRIC…
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Redress hearings ahead, the Vincent Chin indictment, and Grenada
Redress and civil rights ran through the news of November 11, 1983. John Tateishi reported that JACL’s redress bill, HR…
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Grenada, the Civil Rights Commission and redress funding
News of the death of Army Ranger PFC Mark O. Yamane, 20, of Seattle, killed in the fighting on Grenada,…
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Onizuka’s delayed flight and the Korematsu hearing date
The front page carried news of Ellison Onizuka, the Hawaii-born astronaut whose November shuttle mission was scrubbed after eight months…
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Redress bill HR 4110 introduced, and Amache remembered
The Civil Liberties Act of 1983, HR 4110, led the front page. Majority Leader James Wright introduced the redress bill…
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Government moves to clear Fred Korematsu’s conviction; redress bill introduced
The Justice Department’s motion to vacate Fred Korematsu’s wartime conviction led the front page of this issue. Korematsu had been…
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Anti-Asian violence and the fight over immigration reform
The front page carried news of anti-Asian violence and efforts to answer it. The Asian Pacific American Advocates of California,…
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Redress bills and new proof that Nisei were not spies
Redress led the news in this 12-page issue. Ron K. Ikejiri reported that JACL’s Washington Office and the National Committee…
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Redress, the Korematsu case and the ‘Go for Broke’ exhibit
Redress and the wartime incarceration (often called internment) ran through this 12-page issue. A federal judge ordered the government to…
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The Paul Wu verdict in San Francisco, and a monument at Amache
A San Francisco jury’s verdict in the stabbing death of Paul Wu led the front page, and the Asian community’s…
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Redress pledges, the Puyallup memorial and the downing of KAL 007
The Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Sakhalin on Sept. 1, 1983 led the front page, with…