The 1998 holiday issue: American Food Culture
Food was the one subject of the 120-page holiday issue that closed 1998. Writers traced Japanese American identity through the…
Print Issue: 1998
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Mills College tenure dispute, Asian American voters and JLA redress
A tenure dispute at Mills College led the November 20, 1998 issue. Caroline Aoyagi reported that the college denied a…
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Medal of Honor upgrades for 104 Asian American WWII veterans
A Pentagon review panel was looking over a list of 104 Asian American World War II veterans for possible Medal…
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Proposition 5 and the November 1998 California elections
Proposition 5, the California Indian Self-Reliance Initiative, led the news. The national JACL endorsed a yes vote in the name…
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Redress awards in Torrance, plus the Clinton race panel’s report
Redress and the Civil Liberties Act ran through the front page of this 12-page issue. Tracy Uba reported on the…
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The end of the redress program and the 1998 JACL scholarship winners
The close of the Japanese American redress program led the news. A Department of Justice ceremony marked the end of…
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Draft resisters, redress and the 1998 census debate
The 442nd Veterans Club of Oahu passed a resolution recognizing the World War II draft resisters of the Heart Mountain…
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Nisei Week, redress after ten years, and the 2000 Census fight
The Nisei Week Queen pageant led the front page, with Mika Tanner asking whether the Los Angeles tradition, begun in…
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Redress deadline and the Philadelphia convention, August 1998
The first national JACL convention in Philadelphia, held June 30 to July 5, drew over 550 people, and Herb Horikawa,…
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The 1998 JACL convention in Philadelphia and the Redress History Project
The 35th biennial JACL national convention in Philadelphia filled the front page. Caroline Y. Aoyagi reported that the national council…
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Food stamps restored for legal immigrants, plus the redress story
Immigration and civil rights led the news on July 3, 1998. President Clinton signed a bill restoring federal food stamps…
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Redress for Japanese Latin Americans, 57 years later
A settlement for Japanese Latin Americans led the news. In Mochizuki vs. the U.S., the government agreed to an apology…
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Asian Pacific film in Los Angeles and the redress fund running low
Asian American film and pop culture opened this 16-page issue. Caroline Aoyagi reported on the 13th Los Angeles Asian Pacific…
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Prop. 209 and UC admissions, plus Arizona’s English-only ruling
Proposition 209 and its first results led the news. The 1998 freshman admissions figures for the University of California showed…
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Candidates for JACL national office, and the final redress claim workshops
Seven current National Board members, all of whom had applied for national JACL office, led the news in this issue,…
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Proposition 227 and the ‘Ties That Bind’ conference
California’s Proposition 227, the Unz Initiative on bilingual education, led the April 17, 1998 issue. Mika Tanner wrote about its…