The 2010 holiday issue: a history of JACL national conventions
JACL’s national conventions, from 1929 to 2010, filled this 120-page issue. Harry K. Honda wrote a timeline of every convention…
Print Issue: 2010
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JACL’s deficit, its name, and the DREAM Act, November 2010
A projected deficit and a debate over the JACL’s name ran through this 16-page issue. Nalea J. Ko reported that…
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Nisei veterans and the Congressional Gold Medal
Japanese American military service ran through this 16-page issue. A three-page roundtable by Nalea J. Ko brought together thirteen veterans…
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Gold Medal for Nisei veterans, and a dairy feedlot near Minidoka
President Obama signed the Congressional Gold Medal bill honoring Japanese American veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental…
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Gold Medal for Nisei veterans, and the NYC mosque parallel
Congress passed the Congressional Gold Medal bill for Japanese American World War II veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team,…
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JACL scholarship winners on keeping the organization relevant
The 2010 National JACL Scholarships and Awards Program filled most of this issue. The program dates back to 1946, and…
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Gulf Coast fishermen, judicial nominees and Korematsu Day
Fallout from the BP oil spill ran through this issue. Nalea J. Ko reported on Vietnamese American fishermen in Biloxi,…
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Birthright citizenship, Prop. 8 and a Gold Medal for Nisei soldiers
The debate over repealing birthright citizenship ran through this issue. Nalea J. Ko and Caroline Aoyagi-Stom reported that the proposal…
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Kooskia camp dig, Norman Mineta’s portrait and the Pacific Citizen’s future
An archaeological dig at the former Kooskia camp in Idaho, where 265 Japanese immigrant men worked from 1943 to 1945,…
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Special national convention issue: JACL meets in Chicago, 2010
The JACL’s 41st Biennial National Convention in Chicago filled this special issue. David Kawamoto was elected national president, and delegates…
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Civil rights then and now, plus Arizona’s immigration law
Civil rights ran through this 16-page issue. Nalea J. Ko profiled Ed Nakawatase, who left Rutgers at 20 to join…
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Nisei graduates honored and the future of the P.C.
Honorary degrees for Nisei students whose schooling was cut short by the World War II incarceration (often called internment) filled…
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Vashon Island’s Mukai Farm, SB 1070 and the 442nd on film
The historic Mukai farmhouse and barreling plant on Vashon Island, built by Issei B.D. Mukai in 1928, was for sale…
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UCLA honors Nisei students whose studies the war interrupted
UCLA’s honorary degrees for Japanese American students whose education was interrupted by the World War II incarceration (often called internment)…
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Arizona’s immigration law, the paper’s future and JACL’s candidates
Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law led the news, as Asian Pacific American groups joined the fight against it and JACL…
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Debate over moving the P.C. to San Francisco, April 2010
The future of the Pacific Citizen itself was the main subject of this 16-page issue. The JACL national board voted…