The 1988 Redress anniversary issue: voices from 20 years on
Redress, twenty years after the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, filled this holiday issue. Executive Editor Caroline Aoyagi-Stom gathered first-person…
Print Issue: 2008
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Voting power and the Proposition 8 fight: the November 2008 election issue
Same-sex marriage and the 2008 elections shared the front page. Lynda Lin wrote about Tim Ky and Larry Riesenbach, a…
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Veterans Day 2008: Nisei vets’ stories, JACL and the 1988 redress law
Veterans Day set the tone for this issue. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom wrote about Yonsei grandchildren of Nisei soldiers, including Robyn Tofukuji,…
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Salute to Champions of Redress: the JACL Gala Dinner in Washington
Redress, and the people who made it happen, led this issue. The JACL held its second annual Gala Awards Dinner…
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The Oyama case, 60 years on, and a new honor for the Go For Broke regiments
The Oyama case led this issue. Lynda Lin told how Kajiro Oyama, an Issei barred from owning land, deeded farmland…
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Paper cranes, redress heroes and the Nihonmachi Street Fair
Two 14-year-olds from Minnesota, Michelle Reed and Carly Gutzmann, opened the issue with a plan to fold and collect 120,313…
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Guantanamo, redress at 20, and a feedlot near Minidoka
Seven years after 9/11, Lynda Lin reported on Japanese American leaders drawing lines between the World War II incarceration (often…
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Twenty years after redress: reparations, remembrance and Cherry Kinoshita
The 20th anniversary of redress and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ran through this 16-page issue. Todd Kushigemachi asked…
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The Utah convention issue: a new budget, annual conventions and redress
The JACL national convention in Salt Lake City filled most of this 16-page issue. Lynda Lin reported on the 2009-10…
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Young voters, a Minidoka feedlot fight and Portland’s lost Japantown
Young Asian Pacific Americans in the 2008 presidential race were the main subject, with Todd Kushigemachi profiling activists who started…
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Gila River and Mama, a Vietnam bike trip, and the Little Tokyo sale
A documentary about Gila River led this July 4, 2008 issue. Claire Mix is producing “Gila River and Mama: The…
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Redress at 20, a Supreme Court ruling and the ‘Coroner to the Stars’
Dr. Thomas Noguchi, L.A. County’s chief medical examiner from 1967 to 1982, was the cover story, with Lynda Lin tracing…
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A presidential town hall with no candidates, and JACL’s budget
A May 17 presidential town hall in Irvine, Calif., organized by APIAVote, drew no candidates in person, and Lynda Lin…
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Heart Mountain, Sacramento’s Japantown and the Minidoka expansion
Preserving Japanese American history ran through the front page and much of this 16-page issue. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom reported on the…
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Redress at 20: a series begins, and Tule Lake’s future
A new series marking 20 years since the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 opened this issue, with the Redress story…
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Remembering Sadao Munemori, and the Olympic torch protests
A Glendale, Calif. overpass was the main subject of the front page. Caroline Aoyagi-Stom reported on a group hoping to…